rgl

1.3.36

3D Visualization Using OpenGL

318packages depend

1Mdownloads / year

26.6%test coverage

9/13checks 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)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

# 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

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

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12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #401 · ~2.8K/day · ~86.5K/mo

rgl Releases R versions

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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 · +3% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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lintr

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Git structural (1)

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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)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

318direct

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and 270 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