[Rd] rgl package demo causes R memory corruption under Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It does not fail for me either (on Windows XP).

I suspect it is hardware-related, that is that the GL support of the 
video driver may be implicated.

I see no evidence of `R memory corruption' as distinct from `memory 
corruption to the R process'.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Dominick Samperi wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Running the rgl demo package (demo(rgl)) causes memory corruption when
>> used with
>> R 2.2.0 under Windows. I tested on two Windows systems: Windows 2000 and
>> Windows XP.
>>
>> When you terminate R after running the demo you get a message about the
>> application
>> trying to reference invalid memory. If you try to run another
>> application in R after running
>> the rgl demo it typically fails.
>>
>> Dominick
>>
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>
> Dominick,
>
> this report is package related. Please contact the package maintainer
> who might be willing to help to debug on your machine.
> I cannot reproduce this neither on Windows NT4 SP6 nor on Windows Server
> 2003 SP1.
>
> Uwe
>
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