Yes, I can confirm that this works now for me too. Now if I can just figure out how to get back to my 2.5.0 version for package development I'll be happy. I vaguely recall a tutorial by Simon about how to keep multiple versions in play -- I'll try to track that down. Thanks for the help.
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:43 AM, stefano iacus wrote: > Roger, > with CRAN binary of R 2.4.0 + rgl (from cran as well), it works for > me in Aqua. I mean from inside the R.app. > > As said, it cannot work from the shell nor under xterm with cran > version of rgl, unless you build rgl by forcing the build against > X11 OpenGL instead of Cocoa OpenGL. > > the error at startup look like some problem with your .RData > > stefano > > > stefano > > On 07/dic/06, at 01:09, roger koenker wrote: > >> I'm still a bit lost... It is true that I'm still using X11 to run R >> but I would >> be happy to use the GUI -- in fact I have used it a bit from my >> laptop >> for teaching purposes, but on my desktop I'm in need of building >> packages from source and haven't managed to see my way clear >> to using the binary versions that Simon is providing. So .... >> >> I tried just downloading the GUI from Simon's ATT page. When >> this starts up, I get: >> >> >> Error in checkConflicts(value) : unimplemented type 'character' in >> 'asLogical' >> Error in seq_along(specs) : argument is not interpretable as logical >> Error in gzfile(file) : invalid 'encoding' argument >> [Workspace restored from /Users/roger/.RData] >> >> and library(rgl) doesn't produce any messages, but neither does it >> do anything >> in response to example(suface3d) except return a prompt. This also >> happens >> with other packages: no complaints on loading, but no response from >> attempts >> to use the package, and search indicates that the packages aren't in >> the search >> list. When R starts up it says it is running: >> >> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-16 r38905) >> >> but this isn't the version that I'm running from my X11 windows...as >> noted below. >> >> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker >> email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics >> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois >> fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 >> >> >> On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 12/6/2006 9:51 AM, stefano iacus wrote: >>>> we usually use .Platform$GUI to check if we are under R.app or >>>> under the console >>>> Un R.app .Platform$GUI="AQUA", under terminal it is set to >>>> "X11" (if R is built with X11 support, which is the case of CRAN >>>> binary) >>>> stefano >>>> p.s. and this is Cocoa not Carbon. The OS X GUI itself is called >>>> AQUA though. Both Cocoa and Carbon are layers between the system >>>> and the AQUA GUI. So, definitely AQUA but not Carbon. >>> >>> Thanks. I'll see if I can put in a test based on .Platform$GUI. >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> On 06/dic/06, at 23:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>>>> On 12/6/2006 8:43 AM, roger koenker wrote: >>>>>> I've recently installed rgl on a: >>>>>> >>>>>> R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-09-10 r39242) >>>>>> powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0 >>>>>> >>>>>> system, from source and everything seemed to be ok, the package >>>>>> loads without complaints, however trying to run any of the >>>>>> examples >>>>>> produces the usual window, but no plotting occurs. The window >>>>>> is blank, and moving the cursor over the window gives the dreaded >>>>>> spinning pinwheel of cluelessness. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can anyone suggest a strategy for further diagnosis? >>>>> >>>>> This sounds as though you are running from the console rather than >>>>> R.app, but have built rgl (or downloaded a copy built) to use >>>>> AGL in >>>>> Carbon rather than X11. That doesn't work. AGL calls only work >>>>> from R.app. >>>>> >>>>> If someone knows a nice run-time test for whether Carbon will >>>>> work I'd >>>>> put it in to at least give a meaningful error message. I'd really >>>>> prefer it to fall back to trying X11 in that case, but that looks >>>>> much >>>>> harder: for an OSX newbie like me, I think the AGL/X11 decision >>>>> needs >>>>> to be done at link time, not run time. (On Windows I'd load the >>>>> appropriate OpenGL .dll when the package loaded, and do all the >>>>> calls >>>>> indirectly. But I don't know how to do this on OSX.) >>>>> >>>>> If my assumption in the first paragraph is wrong, please let me >>>>> know. >>>>> And if "Carbon" is the wrong name for the graphics system that >>>>> supports >>>>> the standard Mac GUI and AGL, I wouldn't mind hearing that either. >>>>> >>>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
