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problems with rgl in Ubuntu 'gutsy'

8 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, James Foadi, Hans Ekbrand +1 more

James Foadi
# 
Dear R users/gurus,
I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) on my Dell Latitude D520.
First time for me, as I have always used Fedora.

R installation using "apt" has proceeded fine, both for r-base and r-base-dev.

Next, I need to install various other packages, "rgl" being first in the line.
I have sorted some preliminaries by installing headers for X11 and Mesa:

 sudo apt-get install xorg-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

This stage went fine. Next, I invoked R using sudo:
 
 sudo R

and, from within R, I have installed rgl with:

 > install.packages("rgl")

This has downloaded and installed without any apparent problem. But, when I type
 
 > demo(rgl)

all rgl windows device do not show the outer frame, so I cannot move or resize the window.
In addition to that, the image is like "frozen", it can't be either rotated or shifted at all.

In short, rgl seems not to behave according to expectations. No error messages appear at any stage.

Has anyone a clue on what's going wrong here?

Many thanks,

J 

Dr James Foadi PhD
Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL)
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House
Harewell Science and Innovation Campus
Chilton, Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0DE

Email    :  james.foadi at diamond.ac.uk
Alt Email:  j.foadi at imperial.ac.uk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 17 March 2008 at 15:32, Foadi, J (James) wrote:
| Dear R users/gurus,
| I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) on my Dell Latitude D520.
| First time for me, as I have always used Fedora.
| 
| R installation using "apt" has proceeded fine, both for r-base and r-base-dev.
| 
| Next, I need to install various other packages, "rgl" being first in the line.
| I have sorted some preliminaries by installing headers for X11 and Mesa:
| 
|  sudo apt-get install xorg-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
| 
| This stage went fine. Next, I invoked R using sudo:
|  
|  sudo R
| 
| and, from within R, I have installed rgl with:
| 
|  > install.packages("rgl")
| 
| This has downloaded and installed without any apparent problem. But, when I type
|  
|  > demo(rgl)
| 
| all rgl windows device do not show the outer frame, so I cannot move or resize the window.
| In addition to that, the image is like "frozen", it can't be either rotated or shifted at all.
| 
| In short, rgl seems not to behave according to expectations. No error messages appear at any stage.
| 
| Has anyone a clue on what's going wrong here?

Did you try the pre-built version, ie 'sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl' ?  

Dirk
James Foadi
# 
Yes. It gives me exactly the same problems.
In fact I have tried the pre-built first and then the source, hoping it would, then, compile.

J

Dr James Foadi PhD
Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL)
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House
Harewell Science and Innovation Campus
Chilton, Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0DE

Email    :  james.foadi at diamond.ac.uk
Alt Email:  j.foadi at imperial.ac.uk
Web Page :  http://



-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
Sent: Mon 3/17/2008 16:19
To: Foadi, J (James)
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] problems with rgl in Ubuntu 'gutsy'
On 17 March 2008 at 15:32, Foadi, J (James) wrote:
| Dear R users/gurus,
| I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) on my Dell Latitude D520.
| First time for me, as I have always used Fedora.
| 
| R installation using "apt" has proceeded fine, both for r-base and r-base-dev.
| 
| Next, I need to install various other packages, "rgl" being first in the line.
| I have sorted some preliminaries by installing headers for X11 and Mesa:
| 
|  sudo apt-get install xorg-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
| 
| This stage went fine. Next, I invoked R using sudo:
|  
|  sudo R
| 
| and, from within R, I have installed rgl with:
| 
|  > install.packages("rgl")
| 
| This has downloaded and installed without any apparent problem. But, when I type
|  
|  > demo(rgl)
| 
| all rgl windows device do not show the outer frame, so I cannot move or resize the window.
| In addition to that, the image is like "frozen", it can't be either rotated or shifted at all.
| 
| In short, rgl seems not to behave according to expectations. No error messages appear at any stage.
| 
| Has anyone a clue on what's going wrong here?

Did you try the pre-built version, ie 'sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgl' ?  

Dirk
Hans Ekbrand
#
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:43:58PM -0000, Foadi, J (James) wrote:
[...] 

[Top posting makes it more difficult to add to you discussion.]
Does X do gl-rendering OK with other applications? (what does

$ glxgears -info

give you?)
James Foadi
#
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:43:58PM -0000, Foadi, J (James) wrote:
[...] 

[Top posting makes it more difficult to add to you discussion.]
Does X do gl-rendering OK with other applications? (what does

$ glxgears -info

give you?)
Hans Ekbrand
#
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:11:05PM -0000, Foadi, J (James) wrote:
[...]
[...]
On my system that window can be moved and even resized without
problems (keeping a high rendering rate). Sorry, but I my test didn't
give any conclusive new facts about the cause of the problem.
Ben Bolker
# 
Hans Ekbrand <hans <at> sociologi.cjb.net> writes:

  [snip snip snip]
If you have fancy 3D graphics effects turned on, try
turning them off.

  (System -> Preferences -> Appearance ->
Visual Effects -> None ("Provides a simple
desktop appearance ...")

  unfortunately rgl and compiz/etc. both try to use
the same OpenGL interface, so you can't use both at
the same time.

  Ben
James Foadi
# 
If you have fancy 3D graphics effects turned on, try
turning them off.

  (System -> Preferences -> Appearance ->
Visual Effects -> None ("Provides a simple
desktop appearance ...")

  unfortunately rgl and compiz/etc. both try to use
the same OpenGL interface, so you can't use both at
the same time.

  Ben



This is what makes subscribing a help mailing list a good thing: great!
Ben, you solved my problem!

Thanks very much!

J
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