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X11 support on OSX 10.10.4

3 messages · Jordan Bates, Bob Rudis

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Jordan Bates
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Hello,

I'm having trouble getting X11 support to work.  I have XQuartz 2.7.7
installed.  I've tried installing the R for Mac binaries, with homebrew
from binaries, and with homebrew from source.  In all cases when I run R,
capabilities("X11") returns false.

X11() gives the following error:
Best regards,
Jordan
Bob Rudis
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How did you install XQuartz? It looks like it was via homebrew. The
only official supported one (AFAIK) is via the actual XQuartz package.
I'm on 10.10.4 with XQuartz 2.7.7 (from pkg installer) and R 3.2.1
(from CRAN d/l) and it works fine. I use homebrew for many
sub-libraries (like GDAL) but not for core stuff like X11 & R itself.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Jordan Bates <jtbates1 at asu.edu> wrote:
Jordan Bates
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I have XQuartz installed via the official package.  I have X11 support
working now with CRAN's R.  I found that the error was actually different
with R installed from CRAN's pkg that with homebrew's R.  I just didn't
have the DISPLAY variable set, which was fixed with:
With homebrew's R, X11 support is not compiled in and the R_X11.so module
is not there.  I still haven't been able to figure that out.


2015-08-03 18:27 GMT-07:00 boB Rudis <bob at rudis.net>: