[R-pkg-devel] how to make "r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks" machine support rgl 3D plots

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

Dear Duncan,

On 12 Aug 2015, at 14:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> A while ago I added support in rgl to run on headless machines.  Set 
> the
> environment variable RGL_USE_NULL=TRUE before loading rgl, and should
> never try to call X11 (or whatever graphics system you're using).
> (It's also possible to use options(rgl.useNULL = TRUE) within R.  
> That's
> no help to you, but is useful when embedding rgl plots in knitr 
> documents.)

Could I just check if this approach can be used to suppress example code 
including rgl calls when it is running on CRAN as part of R CMD check? I 
have a package that does not build on r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks 
because there appears to be a problem with rgl and the examples fail:

https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks/nat-00check.html

Of course I could put all the examples inside dontrun blocks, but I do 
prefer to have them run.

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Greg.

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