rgl segfault

Roger,

On May 8, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Roger Koenker wrote:

Is there some new protocol for installing rgl?  I finally installed R 3.0 today:

require(rgl)

Loading required package: rgl

sessionInfo()

R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rgl_0.93.935

and installed rgl from binaries....  but rgl.open()  yields:

rgl.open()

*** caught segfault ***
address 0xe8, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: .C(rgl_dev_open, success = FALSE)
2: rgl.open()

Can you provide more details about your setup? I cannot reproduce it. Both X11 and AGL versions of rgl work for me just fine (CRAN binary, OS X 10.6.8).

There are several ways to run rgl, so it would be useful to know
a) what is your OS X version

b) are you running X11 and if so which one

c) if you are not running the X11 version, is this from R.app or Terminal or any other GUI

Cheers,
Simon

I had an old note to myself suggesting to install from source with:

R  CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib" rgl

which I tried too, but it produced the same result when I tried to run demo(rgl).  Any suggestions
would be welcome.

Roger

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