rgl normally works under Xvfb on Linux: we've been using that for the
testing 'for ever'.
However R should not 'crash' on an error in a package, and the X11 device
has error handlers set up by
XSetErrorHandler(R_X11Err);
XSetIOErrorHandler(R_X11IOErr);
I don't see anything comp
The rgl package currently crashes R when running under Xvfb (the
"virtual frame buffer" server), at least on MacOSX. It makes sense that
it shouldn't be able to work there (it needs interactivity), but I don't
know how to detect the problems before they cause the crash.
Currently the error hap
Where the generic and the method have different arguments, there is a
local version of the method that must be called, with argument
matching. In your call, R's behavior is to pass down the missing
argument from the generic. (Your explicit empty argument is
intrinsically different in R from m
