(This is bcc'd to a list of people who have had problems with rgl lately or who are known to be big users; not cc'd, so you don't all get cc'd all the responses on the R-devel list). I've just put together a test build of rgl, and put it on my web site as http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.tar.gz (source) and http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.zip (Windows binary). This includes a number of changes: - changes to configure script from Laszlo Kajan and Brian Ripley: should now be much more portable - removed deprecated OSX font setting calls - texture properties are now returned by material3d() - allowed normals and texture coordinates to be specified in triangles and quads - normals may be specified in qmesh objects, but (at present) subdivide removes them - material3d() now preserves the values of unspecified parameters (as documented, but not previously functioning) - open3d() now resets all material properties to the defaults. Could people who have been having problems with rgl (or just making use of it) please test this update? Some of the changes are very recent, and may still be buggy: but I'm going offline from late tomorrow until March 4, so I'm not going to have an opportunity to test them myself well enough to want to send this to CRAN. I'm hoping to send this to CRAN soon after I return. Duncan Murdoch
Hallo Duncan, your newest version works fine under R-2.5.0 (devel) on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (i386). I made some tests with different types of diagrams and all seems to be ok for me. Thank you very much. I am look forward to the release of this version. Have a nice trip, Rainer Duncan Murdoch wrote:> (This is bcc'd to a list of people who have had problems with rgl lately > or who are known to be big users; not cc'd, so you don't all get cc'd > all the responses on the R-devel list). > > I've just put together a test build of rgl, and put it on my web site as > > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.tar.gz > (source) > > and > > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.zip > (Windows binary). > > This includes a number of changes: > > - changes to configure script from Laszlo Kajan and Brian Ripley: > should now be much more portable > - removed deprecated OSX font setting calls > - texture properties are now returned by material3d() > - allowed normals and texture coordinates to be specified in > triangles and quads > - normals may be specified in qmesh objects, but (at present) > subdivide removes them > - material3d() now preserves the values of unspecified parameters (as > documented, but not previously functioning) > - open3d() now resets all material properties to the defaults. > > Could people who have been having problems with rgl (or just making use > of it) please test this update? Some of the changes are very recent, > and may still be buggy: but I'm going offline from late tomorrow until > March 4, so I'm not going to have an opportunity to test them myself > well enough to want to send this to CRAN. > > I'm hoping to send this to CRAN soon after I return. > > Duncan Murdoch
Hello Duncan, rgl.snapshot seems ok! I compiled the source as usual: R CMD INSTALL rgl_0.70.564.tar.gz on a Linux hostname 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 18:50:56 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Fedora Core 6. I tested the rgl.snapshot, and it creates the snapshot png without a hitch. Best regards, Laszlo Duncan Murdoch wrote:> (This is bcc'd to a list of people who have had problems with rgl lately > or who are known to be big users; not cc'd, so you don't all get cc'd > all the responses on the R-devel list). > > I've just put together a test build of rgl, and put it on my web site as > > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.tar.gz > (source) > > and > > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/rgl_0.70.564.zip > (Windows binary). > > This includes a number of changes: > > - changes to configure script from Laszlo Kajan and Brian Ripley: > should now be much more portable > - removed deprecated OSX font setting calls > - texture properties are now returned by material3d() > - allowed normals and texture coordinates to be specified in triangles > and quads > - normals may be specified in qmesh objects, but (at present) > subdivide removes them > - material3d() now preserves the values of unspecified parameters (as > documented, but not previously functioning) > - open3d() now resets all material properties to the defaults. > > Could people who have been having problems with rgl (or just making use > of it) please test this update? Some of the changes are very recent, > and may still be buggy: but I'm going offline from late tomorrow until > March 4, so I'm not going to have an opportunity to test them myself > well enough to want to send this to CRAN. > > I'm hoping to send this to CRAN soon after I return. > > Duncan Murdoch