On 11/09/2013 11:44 AM, Andreas Maunz wrote:
I am running Xvfb now with
-fbdir /some/path and
-extension RANDR
but rgl.snapshot is still not working.
Any other idea? Since I can display the webGL successfully in firefox
(so comes out correct), I assume there should be some way of
converting it on the server side to some (vector) graphic file format?
The .html file that writeWebGL produces could be considered to be that,
but it's really mostly Javascript code, and I don't know anything other
than a browser that can display it. If you look at ?writeWebGL, you'll
see links to various other ?write* files; they are all vector formats,
but are all more limited than writeWebGL in what they can record.
Duncan Murdoch
Thanks
Andreas
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 10/09/2013 10:58 AM, Andreas Maunz wrote:
Hi all,
I have a shiny app, in which I want to use rgl's snapshot
function. I am
running Xvfb on my server so that rgl works. I start my shiny
app as
follows:
echo "Checking for Xvfb..."
pgrep -U username Xvfb > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Starting Xvfb..."
Xvfb :7 -screen 0 1280x1024x24 &
sleep 2
fi
echo "...starting shiny"
export DISPLAY=":7"; R --no-save --no-restore -e
"library('shiny');
runApp('/path/to/app', port=8101)"
In the app, I do plot3d(), generate webGL and send the results
to the
browser. But the rgl.snapshot or rgl.postscript functionality
do not work,
i.e. they produce black or empty images. I assume this is due
to Xvfb. Any
chance I can create snapshots?
rgl.snapshot requires the X server to maintain a frame buffer that
it can read. It looks as though something is going wrong with
yours. I don't use a system with Xvfb, so I can't really help,
but you could try Googling to see if that turns anything up.
rgl.postscript shouldn't need the X server, but it is limited in
what it can display.
Duncan Murdoch
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