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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/12/2010 2:19 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any progress so far? It seems R 2.12.1 under Windows still
> does not have the rgl.snapshot() support.

This has been fixed, but the new version has not yet appeared on CRAN. 
The problem was that it's a little tricky to do the dual-architecture 
build, and both rgl and the build scripts needed changing.

If you are set up to build R you can get the latest from R-forge and 
build from that.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> 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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