Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-20 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > 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 MacOS

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 in

Re: [Rd] X11 help please

2007-06-18 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

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 c

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

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 >> >> XSetEr

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); > XSetIOErrorHandler(R_

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 comp

[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 hap