Dear Duncan and David, For what it's worth I have no problem running rgl on R, R.app, or R64.app under Mac OS X 10.6.5. I'd suspect an X11 issue, though David says that's not the case.
Best, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: December-15-10 1:26 PM > To: David A. Johnston > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Help with RGL package problem > > On 15/12/2010 1:11 PM, David A. Johnston 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. > > Are you running R (in a console) or R.app (the GUI)? Does rgl work in > the other one? (They use different drivers. In a console, rgl will use > the glx driver, in R.app it will use agl. It's possible support for agl > has changed or gone away; I only have 32 bit MacOS 10.5.x, so I can't > see what's going on in 10.6.5 or in 64 bit.) > > Duncan Murdoch > > > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
