Help with RGL package problem
Hi David, I had similar errors are linux awhile back. I ended up needing to install/update some of rgl's non-R dependencies. I want to say it was OpenGL and GLU in particular, but I was doing a lot of install/updating at the time and I may be mixing one or both of those up. Also that was linux, not Mac, but anyway I would start by looking at: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgl/index.html and then checking/updating any of those system requirements. Cheers, Josh On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, David A. Johnston
<dajohnston at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
Hello, I have been experiencing an odd error with the RGL package that I cannot figure out. ?I have searched without luck for fixes to this problem on Rseek, Google, and the R-help-list. RGL used to work on my machine about a month ago. ?It was a very useful tool. ?The graphics device will not initialize now, and I cannot figure out why. When I try to load the package using ...
library(rgl)
... I get a warning message: Warning messages: 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: no suitable visual available 2: In fun(...) : error in rgl_init I also notice I cannot open a new rgl device:
open3d()
Error in rgl.open() : rgl.open failed I am on MacOS 10.6.5. ?X11 is installed and is working to my knowledge. Does anybody have any suggestions to figure this problem out? ?I tried reinstalling the RGL package (v0.92.794), I tried removing all but the base R packages, I tried installing from both source and binary, I tried re-installing R (v2.12.0). ?No luck with any of these ideas. I'm appending my session info and installed packages:
sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
rownames(installed.packages())
?[1] "base" ? ? ?"boot" ? ? ?"codetools" "datasets" ?"grDevices" "graphics" ?[7] "grid" ? ? ?"methods" ? "rgl" ? ? ? "splines" ? "stats" ? ? "stats4" [13] "tcltk" ? ? "tools" ? ? "utils" Thanks, -David Johnston -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-with-RGL-package-problem-tp3089560p3089560.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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