[R] rgl.snapshot() : no longer works?

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks a lot! Unfortunately we have no access to r-forge these days...
Could you put the latest version in your homepage? (the one in
http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/ is outdated)

Regards,
Yihui
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Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/12/2010 2:19 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any progress so far? It seems R 2.12.1 under Windows still
>> does not have the rgl.snapshot() support.
>
> This has been fixed, but the new version has not yet appeared on CRAN. The
> problem was that it's a little tricky to do the dual-architecture build, and
> both rgl and the build scripts needed changing.
>
> If you are set up to build R you can get the latest from R-forge and build
> from that.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie<xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/11/2010 8:24 PM, Remko Duursma wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>> library(rgl)
>>>>> plot3d(1,1,1)
>>>>> snapshot3d("somefile.png")
>>>>
>>>> Error in rgl.snapshot(...) :
>>>>   pixmap save format not supported in this build
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why does this no longer work?
>>>
>>> The build for 2.12.0 on CRAN doesn't have png support built in.  I'm
>>> currently working with Uwe to fix this.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Remko
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] YPLANTER2_0.1   LeafAngle_1.0.3 gpclib_1.5-1    geometry_0.1-7
>>>> rgl_0.92.794
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] tools_2.12.0
>>>
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