[R] 'strange' R graphics problem | Linux...

[Evan Cooch]

On 10/14/2015 3:51 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
> Evan,
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> I have Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10 at home and have not had problems, but I 
> don't think I've been using R 3.2.2 — I'll try this evening.

Indeed - it could be an R-version issue, and not so much the distro. I 
might, for chuckles, roll back to 3.2.1, and see what happens.

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> Tom
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com 
> <mailto:evan.cooch at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Tom --
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>     On 10/14/2015 3:35 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
>>     Evan,
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>>     Not that this helps you, but I am using a very similar platform
>>     and I am having the identical problem. My test simply comes from
>>     the first help(plot) example. I tried doing some things to
>>     'correct' the problem and ended up mucking-up my Gnome
>>     environment. In the process, I was able to get the example to
>>     display correctly, but as I said, I now have an unusable system.
>>     I'm not sure this is an R specific problem, but some
>>     incompatibility with the Centos Gnome environment.
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>     Thanks very much. I have a couple of Linux Mint 17.x systems as
>     well -- I'll see if they throw the same problem at me/us.
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>>     Tom
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>>     On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:evan.cooch at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes
>>         fine, but I'm having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't
>>         think this is related to R in the broad sense, but how it is
>>         interacting with graphics on the system. here is a
>>         description of the problem.
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>>         1\ something simple:  test <- rnorm(100)
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>>         2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test)
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>>         3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would
>>         expect for the graphic), but rather than showing the
>>         histogram, its essentially a screen-capture of the original
>>         terminal window in which I ran the script. Said second
>>         terminal window is not responsive, at all -- can't even close
>>         it short of opening another shell, and killing the process
>>         from the CLI.
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>>         4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try  a simple
>>         plot.new() -- generate a new terminal window, but with the
>>         same problem 'attributes' as described above.
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>>         For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set
>>         to X11 -- and basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work
>>         perfectly. Other graphics seem to work fine too. Just nothing
>>         I try to plot using R.
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>>         Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the
>>         output of sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see.
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>>         R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
>>         Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>         Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
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>>         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=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>          [9] LC_ADDRESS=C  LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>         [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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>>         attached base packages:
>>         [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils  datasets  methods base
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