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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/12/2010 12:59 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> 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 http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/ is outdated)

Sure.  I can't build the 64 bit one from here at home, but I've put a 32 
bit R 2.12.1 build there (as well as the source).

Duncan Murdoch

>
> 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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