[R-SIG-Mac] library(rgl) hangs in all enviroments but R.app

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/02/2013 04:56, Andrew Christianson wrote:
> So this is a strange one.

Is it?  Do you have X11 installed (from Xquartz on your OS)?  The 
standard rgl (like the standard Tk) is an X11 application.  If you do 
have Xquartz installed, try launching manually first, in case launchd is 
somehow broken on your system.  And check that DISPLAY is not set.

X11 rgl works fine on both my 10.8.2 systems.

As far as I know aglrgl.so needs a Quartz event loop running, and that 
is what R.app provides.

>
> Whenever I try to load the package 'rgl' via the usual 'library(rgl) in R sessions inside bash, Rstudio, and sublime text (SublimeREPL) the session hangs and refuses to load the package.  The strange part is, if the package loads fine within the R GUI app.  Loading in verbose mode shows the successful load in R.app as:
>
> 	now dyn.load(/library/frameworks/r.framework/versions/2.15/resources/library/rgl/bin/x86_64/aglrgl.so) …
>
> while the others hang at
>
> 		now dyn.load(/library/frameworks/r.framework/versions/2.15/resources/library/rgl/bin/x86_64/rgl.so) …
>
> Is it possible to force 'library(rgl)' to load the 'aglrgl.so' package in an environment other than R.app?  Or is there some way to fix the package so it will load in those other environments?
>
> I've googled this in every way I can think of and nothing comes up.  I've also un- and re-installed in multiple times.  When I tried to rebuild from source, via R CMD INSTALL, the build hangs at the last step 'testing if installed package can be loaded' and I'm forced to kill the process.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> System Information:
>
> R: 2.15.2 (64-bit)
> OSX: 10.8.2
>
> Andrew Christianson
> andrew.christianson at gmail.com
>
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