r session interrupted when running library(rgl) on mac

[Agathedumontblanche]

• rgl Version: 0.106.8

• R Version: 1.4.1106

• Platform: Mac OSX version: 10.15.7 (19H524) + XQuartz verssion: 2.8.1 (xorg-server 1.20.11)

• To get around this we have removed the openGL in rgl

[dmurdoch]

That's not an R version number, it looks like an RStudio version number. I'm using a slightly earlier one (1.4.1103).

I'm using the same macOS version as you're using, but I'm still on XQuartz 2.8.0.

This year's updates to XQuartz have caused several problems with rgl: you may need to compile rgl with the same version you have installed, and I'd guess the CRAN version wasn't using 2.8.1 when built: rgl was last updated before 2.8.1 was released.

To help debug this, could you please post your R version number, and details about how you installed R and rgl?

[Agathedumontblanche]

In sumamry

-Platform: Mac OSX version: 10.15.7 (19H524) + XQuartz verssion: 2.8.1 (xorg-server 1.20.11)

• I installed R from this link https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ in the application folder and the version is R 4.0.5 GUI 1.74 Catalina build (7950) , the version up to date

• I installed rgl by running : wget https://cran.rproject.org/src/contrib/rgl_0.106.8.tar.gz R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--disable-opengl" rgl_0.106.8.tar.gz and the version is 0.106.8

thanks ;)

[dmurdoch]

I've updated everything now, and I'm not seeing the crash. It does look like issues #27 and #43. I'd suggest two things:

• use remotes::install_github("dmurdoch/rgl") to install the latest development version. It changes the startup process slightly in RStudio.

• Try removing and reinstalling XQuartz according to these instructions: https://github.com/dmurdoch/rgl/issues/43#issuecomment-794414896 .

Alternatively, if browser display is sufficient, just continue to work with --disable-opengl.

[gdagstn]

Hi, I am having basically the same problem but only with rgl devel (0.108.27). Rstudio bombs and R segfaults in the terminal.

The current CRAN version of rgl (0.108.3) works just fine in both cases.

My specs are: R version: 4.1.2 XQuartz version: 2.8.1 (xorg-server 1.20.11) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit) - macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 rgl version: 0.108.27

I also tried doing what was suggested in #43 (uninstalling XQuartz and removing contents from /opt/X11), and it seemed to work; however, when I restarted the session, it went back to the usual behaviour.

I would really like to work with this version because it allows me to use rgl2gltf which needs rgl > 0.108.21.

I suppose I don't need to have OpenGL functions enabled to create a scene3d that I can save to GLB, but having XQuartz capabilities is quite nice for browsing immediate results.

[dmurdoch]

I'm going to assume something in the last year has fixed this.