[R-SIG-Mac] (old) rgl package crashes MacGUI using R 3.2.3 in El Cap, new compiled one does not.

[David Winsemius]

> On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 30/12/2015 9:40 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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>> So I guess the question is ... why is the build process for the Mavericks/Yosemite/El Capitan machines still failing to produce a current (working) version of rgl?
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> I think it does probably does produce a working version, but it fails the tests on that particular machine.
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> I believe the problem is that the CRAN test machine uses an unusual X server.  I've asked for details on a couple of occasions so I could reproduce the error, but received no response.  I don't know if the server is buggy or rgl just fails to do some checks that are unnecessary on other servers.
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> The latest error is occurring in rgl.pixels, and the underlying C++ code there is a little sloppy with type conversions (e.g. it assumes GL_FLOAT is float, which is not necessarily true), and is probably also sloppy with run-time checks.  I don't think the type sloppiness could be a cause of the error (I think it would fail for all servers if so), and I can't spot the run-time sloppiness.
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Is there any way to put a ##Not run ..... ### "bracket" around that code?


> Duncan Murdoch

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA