On 11/17/2010 10:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 17 November 2010 at 17:48, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > | sorry, forgot the following: > | > | > sessionInfo() > | R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) > | Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > | > | locale: > | [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C > | [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 > | [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 > | [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C > | [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > | [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > | > | attached base packages: > | [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > | [8] base > | > | other attached packages: > | [1] catspec_0.95 anacor_1.0-1 car_2.0-6 > | [4] survival_2.35-8 nnet_7.3-1 MASS_7.3-8 > | [7] colorspace_1.0-1 fda_2.2.5 zoo_1.6-4 > | [10] scatterplot3d_0.3-31 rgl_0.92.794 > | > | loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > | [1] fortunes_1.4-0 grid_2.12.0 lattice_0.19-13 tools_2.12.0 > | > > | > | kjetil > | > | On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:25, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen > | <[email protected]> wrote: > | > Hola! > | > > | > I am on debian squeeze, R-2.12.0 compiled from source running fine. > > Why? CRAN has prebuild current binaries. > > | > I have installed rgl from source, installation proceeds without any > messages, > > Why? We have a prebuilt binary package. > > | > but trying to load it with > | > library(rgl) > | > I get: > | > Warning messages: > | > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: GLX extension missing on server > | > 2: In fun(...) : error in rgl_init > | > > | > What is missing? > > Google for the error message. Your graphocs card is not configured for GL > making the whole point of rgl a little ... difficult.
This would be one possibility, indeed. Though X has become rather sophisticated about auto-detecting GL which would make we wonder a bit. I presume that some library is missing. Is the game neverball working for you? Does that install libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1 or is it allready installed? What about BALLview, does that start? Please give those programs a try and if they work then try rgl again. If the error persists then this will certainly cause some head scratching. If not, then the dependencies are incomplete. Best, Steffen _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
