Hi all,

I've been trying out some of the functionality of the 'rgl' package in R.  Functions like surface3d and points3d are very useful features, mainly because they are interactive (you can rotate the 3D view), compared to the equivalent R surface and points functions, 3D or not.

I know that you can output plots from R into a web-browser using Pipeline pilot, and likewise in rgl you can use the snapshot3d function to output pictures of a 3d plot.

However, is it at all possible to use Pipeline Pilot to directly view the interactive window from rgl?  It's quicker to do this rather than have to save my data, load it up in R & then view it.

The only work-arounds I can think of are these two:

1)  Study the source code behind the rgl package and see if the API allows one to bring up the interactive plot window.

2)  Find a way of automatically loading R up from pipeline pilot (without it closing!) with the interactive plot viewer called from the relevant function.

I'm curious to know if anyone has already done this.

Thanks in advance,

Ed.