[R] rgl.snapshot() : no longer works?

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

Is there any progress so far? It seems R 2.12.1 under Windows still
does not have the rgl.snapshot() support.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 8:24 PM, Remko Duursma wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>> library(rgl)
>>> plot3d(1,1,1)
>>> snapshot3d("somefile.png")
>>
>> Error in rgl.snapshot(...) :
>>   pixmap save format not supported in this build
>>
>>
>> Why does this no longer work?
>
> The build for 2.12.0 on CRAN doesn't have png support built in.  I'm
> currently working with Uwe to fix this.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Remko
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] YPLANTER2_0.1   LeafAngle_1.0.3 gpclib_1.5-1    geometry_0.1-7
>> rgl_0.92.794
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.12.0
>
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