A clue -- Working from home, I created an ssh tunnel into my CentOS box, and brought up the desktop remotely using VNC. Fire up R in a terminal, and *voila*, graphics work fine.
So, if I'm sitting at the CentOS machine, R graphics choke and die. If I use a remote desktop approach, graphics fine. Very strange... Forgot to add before, here are the 'capabilities' from my R install -- X11 and cairo both 'there', so not sure what the problem is. jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE On 10/14/2015 4:00 PM, Evan Cooch wrote: > > > 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> 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.