Graphics API version mismatch

[DeathByDenim]

Trying to plot in RKWard results in:
Error in (function (width = getOption("rk.screendevice.width"), height = getOption("rk.screendevice.height"), :
  Graphics API version mismatch
Error in RK() : Graphics API version mismatch
Error in RK() : Graphics API version mismatch

Outside of RKWard and using plain R this error does not appear and the plot is shown.

I have used R packages from the stock Ubuntu repositories only. I have not installed anything with install.packages().

To reproduce:

Install Tidyverse:
sudo apt install r-cran-tidyverse

Run the following R code in the R Console in RKWard:
library('tidyverse')
ggplot(data=mpg)+ geom_point(mapping = aes(x = displ, y = hwy))

The same code runs fine from just running R from the terminal.

From what I can gather, the solution is to rebuild against the current version of R. Although it's not entirely clear what needs to be rebuild.

System info:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release: 22.04
$ apt-cache policy rkward
rkward:
  Installed: 0.7.2-1
  Candidate: 0.7.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.2-1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy r-base
r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.1.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
     4.1.2-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
$ apt-cache policy r-cran-tidyverse
r-cran-tidyverse:
  Installed: 1.3.1-1
  Candidate: 1.3.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.1-1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[m.eik michalke (m.eik)]

FFIW, i can't replicate the issue with (k)buntu 22.04.2 LTS and RKWard 0.7.5 from the official PPA. i would assume the underlying problem was already addressed in RKWard > 0.7.2.

you might like to try the PPA that fits your setup (ubuntu or CRAN R, backports or not, stable release or bleeding edge daily snapshots...): https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel

[DeathByDenim (jarno-y)]

Ah yeah, that will likely work. I hadn't gotten around to that yet. I figured I would open the bug report for the current version in the default repos before diving deeper into this.

It's maybe this issue: https://invent.kde.org/education/rkward/-/issues/7

Not very clear what was fixed there though.

[DeathByDenim (jarno-y)]

Minor update. I tried to do a build from source for RKWard without making any modifications to the source. Just to rebuild it.

$ apt source rkward
$ sudo apt build-dep rkward
$ cd rkward-0.7.2
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i rkward_0.7.2-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i rkward-data_0.7.2-1_all.deb

Now when I try:
> library('tidyverse')
> ggplot(data=mpg)+ geom_point(mapping = aes(x = displ, y = hwy))

I get an error saying:
Connection closed unexpectedly. Last error was: Unknown error
The R backend will be shut down immediately.

In the R Console in RKWard, it shows:
Error: C stack usage 46079528768812 is too close to the limit
Error:

Weird!