[ESS] R-2.3.0 crash

[Robin Hankin]

Hi guys


with a fresh ESS session:



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 > if(!exists("baseenv", mode="function")) baseenv <- function() NULL
options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
 > > Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
DISPLAY
      ""
 > X11("octopus:0.0")
Error: Couldn't find per display information

Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue May 16 09:48:27 2006






On 15 May 2006, at 16:11, David Reitter wrote:

> One crucial difference between running R from a shell within Emacs
> and from R started by ESS may be that the shell is a log-in shell ("/
> bin/bash -l"), which picks up environment variables set in
> ~/.bash_profile and friends, while a process started by Emacs (even
> in a comint buffer) only inherits Emacs' environment (which is the OS
> X environment, NOT bash_profile). (Disclaimer: in Aquamacs it is the
> same environment, but in vanilla Carbon Emacs, it's not.)
>
> Of course, R shouldn't crash if DISPLAY is empty or set to something
> inappropriate.
>
> Robin, maybe you could report the value of DISPLAY just after you've
> started R from within ESS, e.g. via
>
> Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
>
> -- D
>
>






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>
> On 15 May 2006, at 15:56, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
>> thanks Robin.  I'm forwarding this to the ESS-help list so that  
>> others
>> can see the solution to using X11 under R 2.3.0 with ESS.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> Robin Hankin writes:
>>> Hi guys.
>>>
>>>
>>> problem was solved with
>>>
>>>
>>> Sys.putenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
>>> X11()
>>>
>>>
>>> (posted on the R-SIG-Mac mailing list by Simon Urbanek and Matt
>>> Cohen).
>
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