RKWard on Squeeze requests backend

[AG-21]

Hello

On Squeeze, am wanting to use front end to R (RKWard).

Error msg is: "R backend requests information" with a text box titled
"Selection".

I don't know what it is looking fo and attempt to provide paths (e.g.
/usr/lib/R, and so on) but nothing takes.  Then click cancel and the
program crashes.

Error on console is:
======
failed to find gam_server                
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag-
kbuildsycoca running...                  
failed to find gam_server                

R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag-
Segmentation fault
======

Why on earth would I need gam_server?  Whenever that thing stirs my
memory usage goes up significantly.  I've had to disable the damn
thing.  Anyway, I re-enabled the gam_server and restarted RKWard and the
same thing again.  This time in the text box I entered the path to the
gam_server, but no good, so clicked cancel and RKWard crashed.

This time though, the terminal output simply read "segmentation fault",
without further info.

Anyone have any clues what this may be about?  I have used RKWard fine
on Lenny, so am used to it, but am happy to try out another GUI for R if
someone has suggestions?  I'm not a "hard-core" R user to try it on the
CLI only!!  Either this or a suggestion on how to get RKWard working on
my machine.

BTW, yes R works fine - despite my CLI diffidence, I can run a few tests
and yes R works fine.  It is definitely the interface.

Now I'm off to disable that darn gam_server again.

TIA

AG


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[AG-21]

AG wrote:

> Hello
>
> On Squeeze, am wanting to use front end to R (RKWard).
>
> Error msg is: "R backend requests information" with a text box titled
> "Selection".
>
> I don't know what it is looking fo and attempt to provide paths (e.g.
> /usr/lib/R, and so on) but nothing takes.  Then click cancel and the
> program crashes.
>
> Error on console is:
> ======
> failed to find gam_server                Failed to connect to socket
> /tmp/fam-ag-
> kbuildsycoca running...                  failed to find
> gam_server              
> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag-
> Segmentation fault
> ======
>
> Why on earth would I need gam_server?  Whenever that thing stirs my
> memory usage goes up significantly.  I've had to disable the damn
> thing.  Anyway, I re-enabled the gam_server and restarted RKWard and
> the same thing again.  This time in the text box I entered the path to
> the gam_server, but no good, so clicked cancel and RKWard crashed.
>
> This time though, the terminal output simply read "segmentation
> fault", without further info.
>
> Anyone have any clues what this may be about?  I have used RKWard fine
> on Lenny, so am used to it, but am happy to try out another GUI for R
> if someone has suggestions?  I'm not a "hard-core" R user to try it on
> the CLI only!!  Either this or a suggestion on how to get RKWard
> working on my machine.
>
> BTW, yes R works fine - despite my CLI diffidence, I can run a few
> tests and yes R works fine.  It is definitely the interface.
>
> Now I'm off to disable that darn gam_server again.
>
> TIA
>
> AG
>
>

Don't know if this is the best work around or not, but I changed my
sources list and downloaded RKWard from unstable - all works fine.  
Apparently the fixed version has not yet made its way into testing.

Anyway, if anyone else runs into this as an issue, then this would be a
viable fix.

Cheers
AG


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