Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-20 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Duncan Murdoch wrote: snipped I suspect that the attrib structure isn't really the problem, but I don't know what the problem is. X11() works fine under Xvfb on MacOSX, and rgl works fine when the Xvfb server is on Linux or Cygwin (with the identical line to invoke Xvfb as I was using on

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: The rgl package currently crashes R when running under Xvfb (the virtual frame buffer server), at least on MacOSX. It makes sense that it shouldn't be able to work there (it needs interactivity), but I don't know how to detect the problems

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/06/2007 2:51 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: The rgl package currently crashes R when running under Xvfb (the virtual frame buffer server), at least on MacOSX. It makes sense that it shouldn't be able to work there (it needs interactivity),

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: rgl normally works under Xvfb on Linux: we've been using that for the testing 'for ever'. However R should not 'crash' on an error in a package, and the X11 device has error handlers set up by XSetErrorHandler(R_X11Err);

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/18/2007 7:56 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: rgl normally works under Xvfb on Linux: we've been using that for the testing 'for ever'. However R should not 'crash' on an error in a package, and the X11 device has error handlers set up by

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/18/2007 9:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 6/18/2007 7:56 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: rgl normally works under Xvfb on Linux: we've been using that for the testing 'for ever'. However R should not 'crash' on an error in a package, and the X11 device has error

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch wrote: The rgl package currently crashes R when running under Xvfb (the virtual frame buffer server), at least on MacOSX. It makes sense that it shouldn't be able to work there (it needs interactivity), but I don't know how to detect the problems before they cause the crash.

[Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
The rgl package currently crashes R when running under Xvfb (the virtual frame buffer server), at least on MacOSX. It makes sense that it shouldn't be able to work there (it needs interactivity), but I don't know how to detect the problems before they cause the crash. Currently the error

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
rgl normally works under Xvfb on Linux: we've been using that for the testing 'for ever'. However R should not 'crash' on an error in a package, and the X11 device has error handlers set up by XSetErrorHandler(R_X11Err); XSetIOErrorHandler(R_X11IOErr); I don't see anything