[R] RGL library loading issues

[David Winsemius]

> On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/08/2016 1:04 PM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
>> Dear group:
>> I installed rgl on my mac through terminal.   I used
>> install.packages(rgl) and selected 118 server option.
>> Installation went well until, I get message checking if installed
>> packages working  and nothing happens.
>> I opened another terminal window and types library(rgl)  and I see my
>> X11quartz starts open.. and thats it.
>> Nothing happens after that - meaning I don't get > prompt in R window.
>> ctrl-c does not work, ctrl-d does not work.
> 
> I haven't seen these symptoms before.  You're using a fairly old version of R, and of MacOS; I don't do any testing on those versions any more. Did you install from source? Which version of rgl did you install?

Also could be an incompatibility with XQuartz. That is the most recent version and I suspect the matching version of XQuartz for Yosemite was at least two versions earlier.

Might want to look: at https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.7.7.html

-- 
David.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> 
>>> library(rgl)
>> ^C
>> ^D
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Finally I had to kill -1 <PID>.
>> 
>> what could be the issue? appreciate your help.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Adrian
>> 
>> 
>> X window systemm X quartz 2.7.9 (xorg-server 1.17.4)
>> 
>>> R.Version()
>> $platform
>> [1] "x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0"
>> 
>> $arch
>> [1] "x86_64"
>> 
>> $os
>> [1] "darwin12.5.0"
>> 
>> $system
>> [1] "x86_64, darwin12.5.0"
>> 
>> $status
>> [1] ""
>> 
>> $major
>> [1] "3"
>> 
>> $minor
>> [1] "1.2"
>> 
>> $year
>> [1] "2014"
>> 
>> $month
>> [1] "10"
>> 
>> $day
>> [1] "31"
>> 
>> $`svn rev`
>> [1] "66913"
>> 
>> $language
>> [1] "R"
>> 
>> $version.string
>> [1] "R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)"
>> 
>> $nickname
>> [1] "Pumpkin Helmet"
>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA