[ESS] R-2.3.0 crash

[Robin Hankin]

Hi Stephen

thanks for this.

X11() does not cause a crash (but then again, doesn't open a window)

after M-x shell I get:

[octopus:~] rksh% echo $DISPLAY
localhost:0.0
[octopus:~] rksh%


but in an ESS session I get


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

Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 27 11:09:21 2006


so that causes a crash too.

any ideas?


best wishes


Robin


On 27 Apr 2006, at 10:50, Stephen Eglen wrote:

>
>
> Robin Hankin writes:
>> Hi
>>
>> [MacOSX 10.4.6, emacs 22.0.50.1, ess 5.3.0, R-2.3.0,
>> gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247]
>>
>> Using R-2.3.0 with ESS,  I get a repeatable crash trying to open  
>> an X11
>> window.  Cut-n-paste session follows:
>>
>>
>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>>> X11("octopus:0.0")
>> Error: Couldn't find per display information
>>
>> Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Apr 27 09:55:21 2006
>>
>>
>>
>> what's going on here?
>>
>> [I don't get this running R from a terminal, hence ess-help]
>
> hi Robin,
>
> I wonder if Emacs can get hold of the X11 information; can you try the
> following within your Emacs:
>
> M-x shell
>
> Then in *shell* try:
>
> % echo $DISPLAY
>
> % R
>> X11("octopus:0.0")
>
> which might tell us if it is an ESS issue.
>
> Also, does
>
>> X11()
>
> cause a crash?
>
>
>
> S

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