On May 3, 2011, at 12:35 , Andreas Borg wrote: > Hi all, > > I am posting this again because I got no reply on r-help. Maybe the > devel-list is the right place for this kind of question.
Actually, not an R problem at all, but try one of these... 1) get rid of the DISPLAY environment variable before starting R 2) replace the su command with ssh -Y localhost to get the X server tunneled properly. 3) xhost +localhost (may be a security liability) -pd > > I've run into the following problem with Sweave: I frequently run Sweave > from a xterm console within an X session owned by a different user, i.e. > my colleague is logged in on this computer and I do "su" with my > username and start R and Sweave afterwards. Now, when Sweave comes to a > figure chunk, it sees that there is an X server running and tries to > show whatever I plot in that chunk on the screen, additionally to > writing a pdf file. The problem is that I am not logged into the X > session myself, and the script fails with a message saying someting like > "could not open device X11" (I have German messages, so I do not know > what the exact phrase would be in English). When I log in with putty, > where there is no X11 at all, everything works fine. Is there a way to > prevent Sweave from failing in the former case? Would this even account > as a bug? I think it would be nice if the script just kept on running > without plotting on the screen if opening X11 fails, just like it does > when no X11 is available at all. > > Best regards, > > Andreas > > p.s.: I would be willing to dig in the code and look for a fix myself, but it > would be great if anyone could give a hint where to look. I suspect > "RweaveDriverRuncode" is the right place, but in what namespace is it? > > -- > Andreas Borg > Medizinische Informatik > > UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN > der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität > Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik > Obere Zahlbacher Straße 69, 55131 Mainz > www.imbei.uni-mainz.de > > Telefon +49 (0) 6131 175062 > E-Mail: b...@imbei.uni-mainz.de > > Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte > Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der > richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, > informieren Sie bitte sofort den > Absender und löschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die > unbefugte Weitergabe > dieser Mail und der darin enthaltenen Informationen ist nicht gestattet. > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
