[ESS] R-2.3.0 crash

[Robin Hankin]

Hi Stephen

On 27 Apr 2006, at 11:29, Stephen Eglen wrote:

>
> Thanks Robin; this seems odd.  Any other Mac users (David R?)
> get the same thing?
>
> I'm a little puzzled how it might be an ESS thing, maybe we are not
> setting the environment correctly for R to start.  But was this a
> problem with R-2.2.x series?
>

well I just downgraded to R-2.2.1, and made no other changes,
and everything worked fine.  Going back to R-2.3.0 and the crash
comes as before.


> Another way forward  is to debug the R process, which may take work.
> e.g. you will need to follow the instructions in the R FAQ for
> debugging R within ESS: (Sec 6.3 Debugging R from within Emacs)


well, running R-2.3.0  under gdb and typing X11("octopus:0.0")
gives me a nice X11 window!


>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    If you have ESS, you can do `C-u M-x R <RET> - d <SPC> g d b <RET>'
> to start an inferior R process with arguments `-d gdb'.
>
>    A third option is to start an inferior R process via ESS (`M-x R')
> and then start GUD (`M-x gdb') giving the R binary (using its full  
> path
> name) as the program to debug.  Use the program `ps' to find the
> process number of the currently running R process then use the  
> `attach'
> command in gdb to attach it to that process.  One advantage of this
> method is that you have separate `*R*' and `*gud-gdb*' windows.   
> Within
> the `*R*' window you have all the ESS facilities, such as object-name
> completion, that we know and love.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>



I couldn't quite get this to work, as gdb complained about my R binary
not being in executable format.  I'll have another go in a minute.


> Stephen
>
>
>
>
> Robin Hankin writes:
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Robin Hankin
>> Uncertainty Analyst
>> National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
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Robin Hankin
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