[R] Help with RGL package problem

[John Fox]

Dear Duncan and David,

For what it's worth I have no problem running rgl on R, R.app, or R64.app
under Mac OS X 10.6.5. I'd suspect an X11 issue, though David says that's
not the case.

Best,
 John 

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John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
> Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: December-15-10 1:26 PM
> To: David A. Johnston
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Help with RGL package problem
> 
> On 15/12/2010 1:11 PM, David A. Johnston wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been experiencing an odd error with the RGL package that I cannot
> > figure out.  I have searched without luck for fixes to this problem on
> > Rseek, Google, and the R-help-list.
> >
> > RGL used to work on my machine about a month ago.  It was a very useful
> > tool.  The graphics device will not initialize now, and I cannot figure
out
> > why.
> >
> > When I try to load the package using ...
> >
> >> library(rgl)
> >
> > ... I get a warning message:
> >
> > Warning messages:
> > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: no suitable visual available
> > 2: In fun(...) : error in rgl_init
> >
> > I also notice I cannot open a new rgl device:
> >
> >> open3d()
> > Error in rgl.open() : rgl.open failed
> >
> >
> > I am on MacOS 10.6.5.  X11 is installed and is working to my knowledge.
> 
> Are you running R (in a console) or R.app (the GUI)?    Does rgl work in
> the other one?  (They use different drivers.  In a console, rgl will use
> the glx driver, in R.app it will use agl.  It's possible support for agl
> has changed or gone away; I only have 32 bit MacOS 10.5.x, so I can't
> see what's going on in 10.6.5 or in 64 bit.)
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > Does anybody have any suggestions to figure this problem out?  I tried
> > reinstalling the RGL package (v0.92.794), I tried removing all but the
base
> > R packages, I tried installing from both source and binary, I tried
> > re-installing R (v2.12.0).  No luck with any of these ideas.
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm appending my session info and installed packages:
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> >> rownames(installed.packages())
> >   [1] "base"      "boot"      "codetools" "datasets"  "grDevices"
> "graphics"
> >   [7] "grid"      "methods"   "rgl"       "splines"   "stats"
"stats4"
> > [13] "tcltk"     "tools"     "utils"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -David Johnston
> >
> 
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