Message-ID: <21D17E90-3558-4464-8D10-EEFD20A7016E@r-project.org>
Date: 2006-05-11T07:34:48Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Problems with R.app GUI
In-Reply-To: <10334075.1147315344109.JavaMail.bboucek@mac.com>
Bruce,
On May 10, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Bruce Boucek wrote:
> I am experiencing the same problem/flaw in the GUI for R 2.3.0 that
> a few other people have posted concern about.
>
> With R-GUI-3121-2.3
> Entering demo() at the prompt results in the following message:
> 2006-05-10 12:31:26.370 open[1512] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned
> -10814 for application (null) urls file://localhost/tmp/Rtmp04NeEd/
> RpackageIQR10d63af1.
Ok, I'll check that one - we need a more clean solution for external
files, so it may be worth changing a bit more.
> As an aside -
> For those having similar problems, I recommend using R in the
> terminal with library(tcltk). One note though, apparently something
> has changed in the implementation of X11R6 on MacOSX 10.4. I used
> to have my display variable set in my bash .profile as:
>
> export DISPLAY=0:0
>
This is wrong and it was pure luck that it worked. The format is
[<host>]:<display>[.<screen>] so you're asking for host "0" which is
invalid.
> Apparently the correct setting is now:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>
Yes and always was.
Cheers,
Simon