[R] RGL

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 27/07/2012 09:14, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On Jul 27, 2012, at 03:48 , David Winsemius wrote:
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>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:46 AM, Guillaume Meurice wrote:
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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I was willing to use the library "rgl" to plot some 3D graphics, but unfortunately, I wan't able to instal the library. The error message is below.
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful if you could give me any clues about how I can solve this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Below you will find :
>>> - installation from binaries
>>> - installation from sources
>>> - sessionInfo()
>>>
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>> The error messages in the"sources" install dialog suggests a problem with your system installation of freetype. I was running rgl v0.92.861 on Leopard without problems. I just tried installing the current version offered to the GUI installer, v0.92.880, restarting and got an error on attempting to load while in version 2.14.2,
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>> After updating R to the current version I am able to install rgl_0.92.892 from binary using the GUI Package Installer and then load  and run code in either R64 or 32-bit R.
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> [snip]
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>> You have a fairly full system. I wonder if you should restart and try with a few less packages?
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>> And as Duncan suggested, you _should_ be posting on the R-SIG-Mac list.
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> Yes. The new CRAN binaries work for me too (and are in the non-X11 version if run from the R app). For source compiles, I think you need to follow the hint about libraries for dependencies at the bottom of http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/.
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> I believe we have seen the R_decompress1 error before, though. If you can reproduce it, it might be worth digging deeper --- over on R-sig-Mac.

It almost always indicates a corrupted lazyload database.  One way to 
corrupt it is to update the package whilst it is in use (which corrupts 
it for the running session, at least).

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