[R] Rcmdr X11 protocol error message

[John Fox]

Dear Peter,

On 30 Aug 2004 17:41:10 +0200
 Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca> writes:
> 
> > Dear Peter and Michael,
> > 
> > Peter: Thank you for fielding this question. Michael initially
> contacted me
> > directly, and I suggested that he write to the list since I didn't
> know the
> > possible source of the problem, had never seen it (either under
> Windows or
> > Linux), and never had a report of it before.
> > 
> > Michael: Does this problem occur only with certain Rcmdr dialogs or
> > generally? 
> > 
> > I'd also be curious to learn whether anyone else has experienced
> this
> > problem, and whether anyone has run the Rcmdr package under
> Mandrake Linux
> > without a problem.
> 
> I can't seem to reproduce it on RH8 with R-1.9.x. I see a couple of
> other quirks though:
> 
> If you bring up a dialog and click "help", you get the help window
> OK,
> but it is not scrollable until you exit the dialog with OK or Cancel
> (by which time the point is moot either way, presumably).
> 

My Linux system badly needs updating, so I can't check this directly
now. Does this problem occur with HTML help? As well, setting the Rcmdr
grab.focus option to FALSE might get things unstuck.

> The "View data set" feature gets stuck in a tight loop and requires
> a Ctl-C in the console to allow it to display the data and process
> any
> events.

Does this problem occur occur when  showData() (from the relimp
package) is called directly, or only when it's called from the Rcmdr?

I'm sorry to impose these questions on you -- in the longer term, I
have to update my Linux system so that I can again perform these tests
myself.

Thank you for your help,
 John
> 
>         -p
> 
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John Fox
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McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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