Thank you for all your help! I have finally solved the issue by simply externally saving all my R session info and restarting the session from another place, it seems to be working this time. It seems I was getting my pathways a little mixed up.
Thanks again. Laura On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16-Jun-04 Laura Quinn wrote: > > No nothing like that, I am running two parallel R sessions (something I > > often do) and the other one is working absolutely fine - I am working > > directly from my network, not via ssh, and certainly am not privvy to > > any super user passwords! > > It looks as though you may be logged in to two different machines > for your two R sessions, in which case it looks as though one of > them has ascertained the X display for your machine (i.e. the one > you are sitting at), and the other has not. (Indeed, the one that > works might be your machine itself, in which case it knows anyway). > > Test: > > 1. In the xterm logged in to the machine which works, before starting R, > enter > > echo $DISPLAY > > 2. On the xterm logged in to the machine which does not work, before > starting R, enter > > echo $DISPLAY > > For example, I'm using machine "compo" here on which is an xterm > logged in to another machine called "brandy". So, in this xterm, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > echo $DISPLAY > compo.fort.knox.uk:0.0 > > showing that "brandy" knows the X display destination for "compo". > > So, when you do (1) above, you should see something similar. If I'm > right, when you do (2) above, you will probably just get a blank > response. > > If that happens, then you have to see about getting the (2) machine > to set the DISPLAY variable when you log in to it. This can be tricky: > I've known cases where the cause was quite deeply hidden. Basically, > the information for the DISPLAY variable is ascertained by a script > which is run when you log in to the remote machine, which may be > a sub-script of some other script, ... > > I hope this helps, > Ted. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 > Date: 16-Jun-04 Time: 11:58:12 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
