rgl crash on windows 7
On 28/09/2017 7:15 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
I have a co-worker who has installed R 3.4.2 on Windows 7.? When this person tries to load the rgl package with library(rgl) A dialog box appears with the message: R for windows gui frontend has stopped working I suspect a conflict problem with a dll, but I'm not sure how to identify if this is the problem since R is crashing immediately. Interestingly, when we start R and do NOT load rgl, but type this WITHOUT parentheses: rgl:::.onUnload We get the same crash.
That will trigger a load of rgl, which will try to load the DLL.
On my laptop I can load rgl just fine, after loading rgl I see:
R> getLoadedDLLs()
?Filename Dynamic.Lookup
base
base ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
methods ? ? ? C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/methods/libs/x64/methods.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
utils ? ? ? ? ? ? C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/utils/libs/x64/utils.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
digest
c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/digest/libs/x64/digest.dll ? ? ? ? ? TRUE
grDevices C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/grDevices/libs/x64/grDevices.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
graphics ? ?C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/graphics/libs/x64/graphics.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
stats ? ? ? ? ? ? C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/stats/libs/x64/stats.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
Rcpp
c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/Rcpp/libs/x64/Rcpp.dll ? ? ? ? ? TRUE
htmltools
?c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/htmltools/libs/x64/htmltools.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
jsonlite
c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/jsonlite/libs/x64/jsonlite.dll ? ? ? ? ? TRUE
tools ? ? ? ? ? ? C:/Program
Files/R/R-3.4.1/library/tools/libs/x64/tools.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
httpuv
c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/httpuv/libs/x64/httpuv.dll ? ? ? ? ? TRUE
mime
c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/mime/libs/x64/mime.dll ? ? ? ? ? TRUE
rgl
?c:/kw/R/win-library/3.4/rgl/libs/x64/rgl.dll ? ? ? ? ?FALSE
Can I manually load the DLLs and then load rgl?
Any tips on how to proceed would be appreciated.
I don't have access to Windows 7, but just tried the new R 3.4.2 with Windows 10, and like you, had no problems. I'd suggest running update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) to make sure everything is current. If that doesn't fix the problem, you probably need to run Rgui under a debugger like gdb to identify what the issue is --- but that's not a trivial thing to do. If you want to just make random changes hoping that something might help, updating the graphics driver (or disabling hardware acceleration if that's something that it can do) could make a difference. Duncan Murdoch