R Observatory: Metrics for rgl version 1.3.36

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rgl

1.3.36

3D Visualization Using OpenGL

320packages depend

1Mdownloads / year

26.6%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Duncan MurdochFirst published 2004-03-04133 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides medium to high level functions for 3D interactive graphics, including functions modelled on base graphics (plot3d(), etc.) as well as functions for constructing representations of geometric objects (cube3d(), etc.). Output may be on screen using OpenGL, or to various standard 3D file formats including WebGL, PLY, OBJ, STL as well as 2D image formats, including PNG, Postscript, SVG, PGF.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("rgl", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("dmurdoch/rgl")

Development version from dmurdoch/rgl. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rgl

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-rgl

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-rgl

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 11.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

26.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 985 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 93%
Documented parameters: 66%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #415 · ~2.8K/day · ~86.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56.9K30 days

211.7K90 days

1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.2K r2u96 autocran30K conda_forge358 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ dmurdoch/rgl

102Stars

23Forks

18Open issues

2Open PRs

19Releases

2,539Commits

15Contributors

rglwebglopenglgraphicsr

License GPL-2.0 · 2,539 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · +1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-21 · 922026-07-20 · 102

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dmurdoch/rgl on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesSupport guide

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (12)

graphicsgrDevicesstatsutilshtmlwidgets htmltools knitr jsonlite magrittr R6 base64enc mime

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (27)

MASSrmarkdown deldir orientliblatticemisc3d magick plotrix interp alphashape3dtcltkjs webshot2 downlit pkgdown extrafont shiny manipulateWidget testthat crosstalk V8 chromote jpeg png markdown xdvirgrid

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

320direct

70indirect

and 272 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (24)

Maintainer (1)

Duncan Murdoch

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.67

Authors (2)

Duncan Murdoch

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.67

Daniel Adler

Author

Contributors (20)

Mapbox team

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.3.16

The R Core Team

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.106.6

Ben Bolker