[R] fix and edit don't work: unable to open X Input Method->segfault

[Patrick Connolly]

On Sun, 08-Jan-2012 at 03:32PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:

|> I can't run fix() or edit() anymore. Did I break my system?
|> 

|> I'm running Debian Linux with R-2.14.1. As far as I can tell, the R
|> packages came from Debian's testing "wheezy" repository.  I would
|> like to know if users on other types of systems see the same
|> problem. If no, then, obviously, it is a Debian-only issue and I

I compiled R-2.14.1 on CentOS and on Kubuntu (64 bit) without any
problem.  Since Kubuntu is a Debian based distro, I don't think it's a
Debian problem.  However, if R-2.14.0 still works for you but R-2.14.1
does not, that's an indication that it would be the debs you used.

|> can approach it from that point of view.  And if no other Debian
|> users see same, it means it is a me-only problem, and that's
|> discouraging :)

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|> > sessionInfo()
|> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
|> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
|> 
|> locale:
|>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
|>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
|>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
|>  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
|>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
|> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
|> 
|> attached base packages:
|> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
|> [8] base
|> 
|> other attached packages:
|> [1] ggplot2_0.8.9 proto_0.3-9.2 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.6
|> > fix(mpg)
|> Error in dataentry(datalist, modes) : invalid device
|> In addition: Warning message:
|> In edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...) :
|>   unable to open X Input Method

That looks like an OS issue (assuming it's not a problem with the deb).  

|> 
|> Same happens no matter what packages are loaded, so far as I can tell.
|>  Here it is without ggplot2, in case you were suspicious of those
|> particular datasets.
|> 
|> 
|> > library(datasets)
|> > datasets()
|> Error: could not find function "datasets"

No surprise there.  Everyone will get that message since there is no
datasets function.


|> > help(package=datasets)
|> > fix(CO2)
|> Error in dataentry(datalist, modes) : invalid device
|> In addition: Warning message:
|> In edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...) :
|>   unable to open X Input Method

There's that X message again.

[...]


HTH


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