[Rd] RCmdr on Linux with R 2.0.0 over VNC can't use GLX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The issue is with package rgl, and we need to talk to the maintainer, John 
Fox (Cc:ed here)

John: I am having problems too.  On AMD64, rgl was flaky under Fedora Core 
2 and crashes everytime on FC3.  It also crashes on 32-bit FC3 using Xvfb.
Could you please make it optional: few users will actually want it in 
every session.

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Bob Kinney wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a admin over at Harvard University and I have quite a few users that
> use R predominately over VNC.  In the past this has not been an issue,
> but after upgrading to R 2.0.0 they can no longer use RCmdr over VNC.
> When trying to use the package, they see the following:
>
>> library("Rcmdr")
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading required package: zoo
> Loading required package: strucchange
> Loading required package: sandwich
> Loading required package: rgl
> RGL: GLX extension missing on server
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>        error rgl_init
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> The same commands work fine when using a non-VNC display.  Is it at all
> possible to modify RCmdr to not use GLX when it is unavailable?
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
> --
> Earl (Bob) Kinney
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Harvard-MIT Data Center
>
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