This is a configuration/OS problem, but it's affecting my use of R ... Whenever I try to open _any_ vignette (as far as I can tell) from within R, I get "Could not get a file descriptor referring to the console", coming from /usr/bin/openvt, which is pointed to by /usr/bin/open, which is called by print.vignette to display the vignette.
On the other hand, openvt fails in the same way from the command line, with _any_ command ("openvt bash"), so I know it's not really an R problem. Nevertheless, maybe someone has an answer? system("evince") or system("acroread") both seem to work fine, so I guess in a pinch I could hack print.vignette ... RSiteSearching finds practically nothing and Googling around finds nothing terribly useful ... this is on a fairly standard Ubuntu 7.04 install. thanks Ben Bolker > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) i486-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" [7] "base" > vignette() > library(grid) > vignette("frame") > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Could not get a file descriptor referring to the console -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-related%3A-problem-with-openvt-on-Ubuntu-7.04-tf4485216.html#a12790390 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.