[R-sig-Debian] Problems with CRAN package rgl

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 November 2010 at 17:48, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
| sorry, forgot the following:
| 
| > sessionInfo()
| R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
| Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| locale:
|  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
|  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
|  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
|  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
|  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
| [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
| [8] base
| 
| other attached packages:
|  [1] catspec_0.95         anacor_1.0-1         car_2.0-6
|  [4] survival_2.35-8      nnet_7.3-1           MASS_7.3-8
|  [7] colorspace_1.0-1     fda_2.2.5            zoo_1.6-4
| [10] scatterplot3d_0.3-31 rgl_0.92.794
| 
| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] fortunes_1.4-0  grid_2.12.0     lattice_0.19-13 tools_2.12.0
| >
| 
| kjetil
| 
| On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:25, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
| <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
| > Hola!
| >
| > I am on debian squeeze, R-2.12.0 compiled from source running fine.

Why?  CRAN has prebuild current binaries.

| > I have installed rgl from source, installation proceeds without any messages,

Why? We have a prebuilt binary package.

| > but trying to load it with
| > library(rgl)
| > I get:
| > Warning messages:
| > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: GLX extension missing on server
| > 2: In fun(...) : error in rgl_init
| >
| > What is missing?

Google for the error message. Your graphocs card is not configured for GL
making the whole point of rgl a little ... difficult.

Hope this helps, Dirk

| >
| > Kjetil
| >
| > --
| > "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the
| > human face - forever."
| >
| > George Orwell (1984)
| >
| 
| 
| 
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| George Orwell (1984)
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