[R] How to repress the annoying complains from X window system

[Marc Schwartz]

on 08/09/2008 06:06 PM dusa.adrian wrote:
> Dear Marc,
> 
> 
> Marc Schwartz wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:25 -0400, Hao Liu wrote:
>>> Dear All:
>>>
>>> I am running some GUI functions in linux environment, they runs fine, 
>>> however I constantly get this kind of message in R console:
>>>
>>> Warning: X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>>
>>> Is there a way to repress it? Or am I doing something wrong here.. it 
>>> does not interfere with the running of fucntion though.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Hao
>> Upgrade your version of R.
>>
>> You have not provided sufficient details, but if I had to guess, you are
>> either running RCmdr or using other tcl/tk based widgets.
>>
>> If correct, the error message that you are seeing was fixed back in R
>> 2.4.0:
>>
>> o	The X11() device no longer produces (apparently spurious)
>> 	'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)' warnings when run from
>> 	Rcmdr.
>>
> 
> I'm digging on a past message, where you said that message was fixed in R
> 2.4.0.
> However, I'm using R 2.7.1 (under Kubuntu Hardy Heron, with tcl and tk
> version 8.4) and still experience the same message with Rcmdr.
> For reproduction, this happens when using (before loading Rcmdr):
> options(Rcmdr=list(console.output=TRUE)).
> 
> In addition to this error message, I also get sometimes this one (repeated
> 17 times at once):
> 
> Warning in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class
> = "tclObj") :
>   X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> 
>> R.version
>                _
> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i486
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          7.1
> year           2008
> month          06
> day            23
> svn rev        45970
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hint,
> Adrian

Hi Adrian,

Apologies for the delay in my reply. I am at useR in Dortmund and 
between travel this weekend, the sessions and some residual jet lag, I 
am just getting caught up on e-mails.

I am cc:ing John Fox (who is also here) as the author of Rcmdr, to see 
if he might have any ideas on this.

I also searched the list archives to see if there was anything recent 
that was relevant. The most recent post appears to be from John in 
August of last year:

   http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/08/23742.html

and suggests that there may be some issue at play here subsequent to the 
presumptive R 2.4.0 fix.

I will defer to John on any more definitive comments.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz