On 10/14/2015 3:51 PM, Thomas Adams wrote: > Evan, > > 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. > > Tom > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com > <mailto:evan.co...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Tom -- > > On 10/14/2015 3:35 PM, Thomas Adams wrote: >> Evan, >> >> 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. >> > > 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. > >> Tom >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com >> <mailto:evan.co...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> 1\ something simple: test <- rnorm(100) >> >> 2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test) >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the >> output of sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see. >> >> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) >> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final) >> >> 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 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing >> list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible >> code. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
