Evan, I have R 3.2.2 installed on my Ubuntu 15.04 machine -- no problems with the graphics display. I have R 3.1.1 installed on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine, that, as expected I have not had any problems with... I tried to install 3.2.2 and 3.2.1 from source and got a very strange compile error, which I need to sort out -- recompiling 3.1.1 failed as well...
Best, Tom On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@cornell.edu> wrote: > A clue -- > > Working from home, I created an ssh tunnel into my CentOS box, and brought > up the desktop remotely using VNC. Fire up R in a terminal, and *voila*, > graphics work fine. > > So, if I'm sitting at the CentOS machine, R graphics choke and die. If I > use a remote desktop approach, graphics fine. > > Very strange... > > Forgot to add before, here are the 'capabilities' from my R install -- X11 > and cairo both 'there', so not sure what the problem is. > > jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE > http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl > TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE > > On 10/14/2015 4:00 PM, Evan Cooch wrote: > > > > On 10/14/2015 3:51 PM, Thomas Adams wrote: > > Evan, > > I have Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10 at home and have not had problems, but I > don't think I've been using R 3.2.2 — I'll try this evening. > > > Indeed - it could be an R-version issue, and not so much the distro. I > might, for chuckles, roll back to 3.2.1, and see what happens. > > > Tom > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Tom -- >> >> On 10/14/2015 3:35 PM, Thomas Adams wrote: >> >> Evan, >> >> Not that this helps you, but I am using a very similar platform and I am >> having the identical problem. My test simply comes from the first >> help(plot) example. I tried doing some things to 'correct' the problem and >> ended up mucking-up my Gnome environment. In the process, I was able to get >> the example to display correctly, but as I said, I now have an unusable >> system. I'm not sure this is an R specific problem, but some >> incompatibility with the Centos Gnome environment. >> >> >> Thanks very much. I have a couple of Linux Mint 17.x systems as well -- >> I'll see if they throw the same problem at me/us. >> >> Tom >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes fine, but I'm >>> having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't think this is related to R >>> in the broad sense, but how it is interacting with graphics on the system. >>> here is a description of the problem. >>> >>> 1\ something simple: test <- rnorm(100) >>> >>> 2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test) >>> >>> 3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would expect for >>> the graphic), but rather than showing the histogram, its essentially a >>> screen-capture of the original terminal window in which I ran the script. >>> Said second terminal window is not responsive, at all -- can't even close >>> it short of opening another shell, and killing the process from the CLI. >>> >>> 4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try a simple plot.new() -- >>> generate a new terminal window, but with the same problem 'attributes' as >>> described above. >>> >>> For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set to X11 -- >>> and basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work perfectly. Other >>> graphics seem to work fine too. Just nothing I try to plot using R. >>> >>> Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the output of >>> sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see. >>> >>> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) >>> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>> Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final) >>> >>> locale: >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
