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R-2.3.0 crashes under ess-5.3.0

2 messages · robin hankin, Simon Urbanek

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Hi

[sending here after trying R-help and ess-help with
no success]

With R-2.3.0 (dmg downloaded just now), ess-5.3.0:
  trying to open an X11 graphics window with
X11("octopus:0.0") results in R crashing:


 > X11("octopus:0.0")
Error: Couldn't find per display information

Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Apr 28 14:05:06 2006




(typing "X11()" doesn't crash, but doesn't open an X window either).

The situation is fine running R from an xterm.  I can
open a window with either X11() or X11("octopus:0.0") from
within an Xterm R session.

I can also open a window fine from R-2.2.1 from within emacs.

Can someone help me diagnose this problem?







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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
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Robin,
On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Robin Hankin wrote:

            
Hmm.. this is strange - it works fine in the Terminal, in the GUI and  
in xterm. I suspect that this is some ESS-specific thing, but I have  
no idea what settings ESS changes. I couldn't find the error in R  
sources, either. Martin, do you have any idea where that error comes  
from?

Cheers,
Simon