Why does library(rgl) hang R on Kevin's Macbook?

[kevinwolz]

This occurs in RStudio and simple R. The only way out is to Force Quite R. The rgl version I'm attempting to load: 0.99.16. My sessionInfo():

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] hisafer_1.4.14

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.12.19 crayon_1.3.4 dplyr_0.7.6 assertthat_0.2.0 grid_3.5.1
[6] plyr_1.8.4 R6_2.2.2 gtable_0.2.0 magrittr_1.5 scales_1.0.0
[11] ggplot2_3.1.0 pillar_1.3.0 rlang_0.3.0.9000 lazyeval_0.2.1 bindrcpp_0.2.2
[16] glue_1.3.0 purrr_0.2.5 munsell_0.5.0 compiler_3.5.1 pkgconfig_2.0.1
[21] colorspace_1.3-2 tidyselect_0.2.4 bindr_0.1.1 tibble_1.4.2

[kevinwolz]

rgl loads and runs hisafe_root3D() just fine on Marie's Mac! What the heck!? (it also runs just fine on all PCs in the lab)

Marie's sessionInfo():
R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] bindrcpp_0.2.2 rgl_0.99.16 hisafer_1.4.9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.12.19 pillar_1.2.3 compiler_3.4.2 plyr_1.8.4
[5] bindr_0.1.1 iterators_1.0.9 tools_3.4.2 digest_0.6.18
[9] lubridate_1.7.4 jsonlite_1.5 tibble_1.4.2 gtable_0.2.0
[13] pkgconfig_2.0.2 rlang_0.3.0.1 foreach_1.4.4 shiny_1.0.5
[17] crosstalk_1.0.0 yaml_2.1.14 stringr_1.3.0 dplyr_0.7.7
[21] knitr_1.17 htmlwidgets_1.2 hms_0.4.2 manipulateWidget_0.9.0
[25] grid_3.4.2 tidyselect_0.2.5 glue_1.3.0 R6_2.3.0
[29] tidyr_0.8.2 ggplot2_3.1.0.9000 purrr_0.2.5 readr_1.1.1
[33] magrittr_1.5 scales_1.0.0 codetools_0.2-15 htmltools_0.3.6
[37] assertthat_0.2.0 mime_0.5 colorspace_1.3-2 xtable_1.8-2
[41] httpuv_1.3.5 stringi_1.2.4 miniUI_0.1.1 lazyeval_0.2.1
[45] munsell_0.5.0

[kevinwolz]

So, Marie has successfully run the same rgl version that I am trying to run, but she's using R 3.4.2. Perhaps I need to go back to R 3.4.2!

[mariegosme]

I tried with version 4.0.1 and it still works.... do you still have the issue?

sessionInfo:
R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

[kevinwolz]

I just tried loading the library on R 4.0.0 with rgl 0.100.54 and it STILL stalled R on my macbook.