unable to open X Input Method

This bug is still present in Edgy.

I experience this bug also on Feisty.
I really would like to have data.entry commands working.

I noticed that this occurs on my laptop (Feisty), but not on my desktop that is running a slightly non-upgraded version of Dapper (no ADSL at home, too lazy).

I have some intuition it could be related to SCIM or something like that.

Attached is output of ps aux | grep scim
The desktop has no scim application running as far as I can tell.

Someone on the #R channel suggested this could be related to some setting in my .bashrc or .bash_profile (EDITOR) but other users on my laptop face the same problem, also if I create new user.

Thanks for these reports.

I've been unable to replicate this, even after setting up SCIM. I've subscribed the CJK testing team - maybe somebody there has some ideas on how to debug this?

I'm facing similar problem on Edgy 6.10, though with different warning. I'm not advanced on Linux, so need any suggestions how can it be solved.

> new <- edit(daily)
Error in dataentry(datalist, modes) : invalid device
In addition: Warning message:
unable to create fontset -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Could you please both provide the output of the ollowing commands, to give us information on your locales and input method setup:

locale
locale -a
echo $XMODIFIERS
echo $GTK_IM_MODULE
dpkg -l "*uim*" | grep "^ii"

Also:
It looks like these errors are being generated by code in R for dealing with non-european languages. Here is the code triggering your bug Stefano: the call to open an X input method（XOpenIM) is failing for some reason.

if(mbcslocale) {
 ioim = XOpenIM(iodisplay, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 if(!ioim) {
     XDestroyWindow(iodisplay, DE->iowindow);
     XCloseDisplay(iodisplay);
     warning("unable to open X Input Method");
     return TRUE;
 }

(from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/modules/X11/dataentry.c)

I hope that if you can provide the information about your input methods, somebody who knows more about R and CJK will be able to help.

Dan,
thanks for pointing out this. I think I had SCIM installed at one point
just because it was a dependency of the ubuntu-desktop metapackage.
Actually, I'm not using it at all.
Also, I tried removing SCIM, but the problem persists.

Here's output you asked for

~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

~$ locale -a
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
lt_LT.utf8
POSIX
ru_RU.utf8
ru_UA.utf8

~$ echo $XMODIFIERS

~$ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE

~$ dpkg -l "*uim*" | grep "^ii"
ii libgnomeuimm-2.6-1c2a 2.16.0-0ubuntu3 C++ wrappers for libgnomeui (shared library)

I had

 $ echo $XMODIFIERS
 @im=SCIM
 $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE
 scim

Then I tried this

 $ export XMODIFIERS=
 $ export GTK_IM_MODULE=

and all data frame editing functions are working. I don't know where the
bug lies (SCIM itself? SCIM misconfiguration on behalf of Ubuntu?), but
at least for my case I have found the cause and a workaround.

I had

 $ echo $XMODIFIERS
 @im=SCIM
 $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE
 scim

Then I tried this

 $ export XMODIFIERS=
 $ export GTK_IM_MODULE=

and all data frame editing functions are working. I don't know where the
bug lies (SCIM itself? SCIM misconfiguration on behalf of Ubuntu?), but
at least for my case I have found the cause and a workaround.
The bad part is that everytime I login those variables are again set to the bad values.

Le Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:59:42PM -0000, Stefano Costa a écrit :
> I had
>
> $ echo $XMODIFIERS
> @im=SCIM
> $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE
> scim
>
> Then I tried this
>
> $ export XMODIFIERS=
> $ export GTK_IM_MODULE=
>
> and all data frame editing functions are working. I don't know where the
> bug lies (SCIM itself? SCIM misconfiguration on behalf of Ubuntu?), but
> at least for my case I have found the cause and a workaround.

Dear Stefano,

The im-switch program from the im-switch package will help you to
configure this once for all.

Have a nice day,

--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan

seems like this got fixed in the latest R 2.5.0, at least the NEWS states:

The X11 dataentry() now has support for X Input Methods (contributed by Ei-ji Nakama).

Hope that fixes my problem.

Marking this fix released following comment #12. Please reopen if not correct.