[R] How to repress the annoying complains from X window system

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, John Fox wrote:

> Dear Mark and Adrian,
>
> I was under the impression that these errors were fixed in R 2.4.0; you
> could try setting the Rcmdr option suppress.X11.warnings=TRUE and see
> whether that helps (but first read the information on the option in
> ?Commander).

The X11() warnings were fixed in 2.4.0: at least one of the messages here 
is from Tk, which also makes use of X11.  The processing of the Rcmdr 
option would need to be expanded to catch the Tk version of the message 
shown.

I've never been able to reproduce these messages, so can't help track them 
down.


>
> As Mark mentioned, I'm currently at the useR conference and don't have
> access to a Linux system here, so I can't check directly.
>
> I hope that this helps,
> John
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:32:28 -0500
> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
>> on 08/09/2008 06:06 PM dusa.adrian wrote:
>>> Dear Marc,
>>>
>>>
>>> Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:25 -0400, Hao Liu wrote:
>>>>> Dear All:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running some GUI functions in linux environment, they runs
>> fine,
>>>>> however I constantly get this kind of message in R console:
>>>>>
>>>>> Warning: X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to repress it? Or am I doing something wrong
>> here.. it
>>>>> does not interfere with the running of fucntion though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Hao
>>>> Upgrade your version of R.
>>>>
>>>> You have not provided sufficient details, but if I had to guess,
>> you are
>>>> either running RCmdr or using other tcl/tk based widgets.
>>>>
>>>> If correct, the error message that you are seeing was fixed back
>> in R
>>>> 2.4.0:
>>>>
>>>> o	The X11() device no longer produces (apparently spurious)
>>>> 	'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)' warnings when run from
>>>> 	Rcmdr.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm digging on a past message, where you said that message was
>> fixed in R
>>> 2.4.0.
>>> However, I'm using R 2.7.1 (under Kubuntu Hardy Heron, with tcl and
>> tk
>>> version 8.4) and still experience the same message with Rcmdr.
>>> For reproduction, this happens when using (before loading Rcmdr):
>>> options(Rcmdr=list(console.output=TRUE)).
>>>
>>> In addition to this error message, I also get sometimes this one
>> (repeated
>>> 17 times at once):
>>>
>>> Warning in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE =
>> "tcltk"), class
>>> = "tclObj") :
>>>   X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>>>
>>>> R.version
>>>                _
>>> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>> arch           i486
>>> os             linux-gnu
>>> system         i486, linux-gnu
>>> status
>>> major          2
>>> minor          7.1
>>> year           2008
>>> month          06
>>> day            23
>>> svn rev        45970
>>> language       R
>>> version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any hint,
>>> Adrian
>>
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> Apologies for the delay in my reply. I am at useR in Dortmund and
>> between travel this weekend, the sessions and some residual jet lag,
>> I am just getting caught up on e-mails.
>>
>> I am cc:ing John Fox (who is also here) as the author of Rcmdr, to
>> see if he might have any ideas on this.
>>
>> I also searched the list archives to see if there was anything recent
>> that was relevant. The most recent post appears to be from John in
>> August of last year:
>>
>>    http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/08/23742.html
>>
>> and suggests that there may be some issue at play here subsequent to
>> the presumptive R 2.4.0 fix.
>>
>> I will defer to John on any more definitive comments.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc Schwartz
>
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> McMaster University
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