[R] RGL library loading issues

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/08/2016 1:04 PM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> Dear group:
> I installed rgl on my mac through terminal.   I used
> install.packages(rgl) and selected 118 server option.
> Installation went well until, I get message checking if installed
> packages working  and nothing happens.
> I opened another terminal window and types library(rgl)  and I see my
> X11quartz starts open.. and thats it.
> Nothing happens after that - meaning I don't get > prompt in R window.
> ctrl-c does not work, ctrl-d does not work.

I haven't seen these symptoms before.  You're using a fairly old version 
of R, and of MacOS; I don't do any testing on those versions any more. 
Did you install from source?  Which version of rgl did you install?

Duncan Murdoch

>
>> library(rgl)
> ^C
> ^D
>
>
>
>
> Finally I had to kill -1 <PID>.
>
> what could be the issue? appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks
> Adrian
>
>
> X window systemm X quartz 2.7.9 (xorg-server 1.17.4)
>
>> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0"
>
> $arch
> [1] "x86_64"
>
> $os
> [1] "darwin12.5.0"
>
> $system
> [1] "x86_64, darwin12.5.0"
>
> $status
> [1] ""
>
> $major
> [1] "3"
>
> $minor
> [1] "1.2"
>
> $year
> [1] "2014"
>
> $month
> [1] "10"
>
> $day
> [1] "31"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "66913"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)"
>
> $nickname
> [1] "Pumpkin Helmet"
>
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