If the full environment isn’t getting passed to R-spawned sub-processes, that might explain an error I’ve been having since the update: when R is launched from the command line, calls that should create an X11 window in the background fail unless an X11 window has already been created with the width and height specified:
> plot(rnorm(100)) Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, : invalid 'width' or 'height' > X11() Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, : invalid 'width' or 'height' > X11(width = 5, height = 5) > plot(rnorm(100)) [now it works - and any number of additional windows can be spawned without repeating the error] [quitting R and reopening, without quitting XQuartz, and I get the same error calling plot() before X11(width = , height = ) This does not happen in RStudio. I don’t use the R.app gui; I opened it just now to test and I got a slew of path-related errors, but they’re as likely to have to do with my not-maintained R.app as with anything else. I had not reported this already because I wasn’t confident whether its a yosemite issue, an R-patched issue, or just something odd in the way I built R. If incomplete-environment-passing is the new normal, is this not going to be a common issue for packages that spawn sub-processes? From: Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> Reply: Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>> Date: October 21, 2014 at 10:12:13 AM To: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>> Cc: r-sig-mac <r-sig-mac@r-project.org>>, Spencer Mass <ma...@newpaltz.edu>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R > No, it is not. It is expected that the path in the terminal be > different to the path in R, it is _not_ expected that the path in R be > different to the path in a subprocess started by R. > > (Well it is now expected, because this appears to be a new security > feature in Yosemite) The best thread I could find on the problem is here: https://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/issues/detail?id=102 -- http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
