[R] interactive rotatable 3d scatterplot

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 16/05/2008 6:43 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> francois Guilhaumon <francoisguilhaumon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am facing the same problem than Mark Kimpel with the rgl package :
>>
>> Running various 3D rendering I'm always faced with a static 3d plot,
>> which does not
>> rotate when I click and mouse over it.
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu linux 7.10 with a 32bit processor, thus the problem
>> is not arising from 64bit issues.
>>
>> François.
> 
>   Are you running Compiz (fancy desktop effects)?  You have
> to go to Appearance/Visual Effects in the Preferences menu
> and set "None", because Compiz conflicts with rgl in its use
> of OpenGL.

If any Ubuntu user can follow up on this and determine if there's a way 
for rgl to do something differently to avoid this conflict, I'd 
appreciate it (and other Ubuntu users might too).

Duncan Murdoch