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 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Page : http:// -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 3/17/2008 16:19 To: Foadi, J (James) Cc: r-help@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 -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. <DIV><FONT size="1" color="gray">This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom </FONT></DIV> ______________________________________________ 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.
