Using X11 from the mac terminal

If you are like me and absolutely hate the Apple auto-X11 setting and disabled it then something like
X11(":0.0")
should work *after* you start X11. If in doubt, open the xterm and look at
echo $DISPLAY
sometimes it may be something like :2 instead (it depends on your other X11 processes, weather and the constellation of stars...)

Cheers,
Simon



On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Ben Madin wrote:

Hadley,

I get the same result as Duncan, sessionInfo() attached:

X11()
Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")

[1] "/tmp/launch-00BR0w/org.x:0"

sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.0 Patched (2011-05-26 r55996)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base

And X11

XQuartz 2.3.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56)


cheers

Ben






On 07/06/2011, at 9:10 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 11-06-06 6:56 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:

X11()

Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma,
d$colortype, ?:
?unable to start device X11
In addition: Warning message:
In X11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''

What am I doing wrong? ?X11 is open, and I have

Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")

[1] "0.0.0.0:0"

I'm sure this used to work, but something has changed in the last few
months. ?Any ideas?

I'm on a Mac right now that works, but it shows

X11()
Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")

[1] "/tmp/launch-OjzUQo/org.x:0"

Duncan Murdoch