I have just encountered the problem with rgl where plot3d figures don't interact with the mouse. My plots zoom in and out with the mouse wheel but the mouse buttons do nothing. I can't rotate the plot.
This has been mentioned and discussed here and in other lists before, and the solution is to turn off Ubuntu's fancy graphics. Back in March, Ben Bolker said: """ unfortunately rgl and compiz/etc. both try to use the same OpenGL interface, so you can't use both at the same time. """ This has echoes of when TCP/IP was in its infancy back in the days of DOS, and only one program could access the network interface at a time (until TCP/IP software got its act together). Is OpenGL really in the same position now? Or is Compiz being "greedy" in some sense? Surely two OpenGL applications can run at the same time? Or is it because rgl is running 'within' another OpenGL window already, so there's some nesting problem going on? Google Earth works fine, and I think that uses OpenGL. Anyone had any ideas since March? I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 and R 2.7.1 Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.