[R] rgl.snapshot only captures a small portion what's visible in the RGL device window on CentOS 7

[Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.]

Dear Duncan, Thanks very much for your reply. I guess I'll start with R-SIG-Fedora. I'll keep you cc'd unless you tell me you would rather I not. -Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 8:13 PM
To: Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] rgl.snapshot only captures a small portion what's visible in the RGL device window on CentOS 7

On 08/01/2016 4:13 PM, Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As an example, I ran the following code:
>
> library("rgl")
> example(plot3d)
> rgl.snapshot("test.png")
>
> The full plot is visible in the window titled RGL device 1 [Focus], 
> but only a small portion of the upper left part of the plot is visible 
> in test.png (see attached test.png, if the list server attaches it. 
> Otherwise, email me if you like and I'll send it directly to you.)
>
> The output of sessionInfo() is as follows:
>
> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: CentOS Linux 7 
> (Core)
>
> locale:
>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8    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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] rgl_0.95.1441
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.3
>
> In addition to the CentOS 7 machine, I have a CentOS 5.3 machine, which has R 3.0.2 and rgl 0.93.996. I tried the code above on it and it captured the full window in the output of rgl.snapshot (i.e., it worked properly).
>
> To see whether the difference could be attributed to the CentOS version or the R/rgl version, I put R 3.0.2 with rgl 0.93.996 on the CentOS 7 machine and ran the code above. As with the earlier CentOS 7 run, only a small portion of the plot was visible in the output of rgl.snapshot. So it seems the difference is due to a difference in the CentOS versions and not the R/rgl versions.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>

I think you'll need to contact CentOS about this.  That code hasn't changed in rgl in a long time.  It's possible that rgl is wrong, but I'd need more information from them to convince me.

Duncan Murdoch



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