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.
Tom On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <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 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> >> 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.
