View an rgl plot using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Question

Using an "execute R script module" in Azure-ml studio, when I plot to an rgl device, I get a broken image icon under the graphics section of the R Device output.

Is there some way to view (and even interact with) the resulting rgl device? If not is there some way to transfer the rgl output to a standard R graphics device?

Simple example:

# put this code inside the execute R script module
library(rgl)
rgl.spheres(0,0,0, radius=1, col="red")

To be clear, I know about rgl.snapshot and rgl.postscript and how to save and /or view an rgl device in a standard R session, but have not been able to make these standard approaches work in azure-ml.

Answer 1

As of today openGL graphics are not supported on Azure Machine Learning. The rgl library is based on openGL and therefor not supported. In theory, and this is only in theory, if a package were built on webGL instead, it "should" render in the graphics window as long as you are viewing from a modern browser. That said, I do not see any webgl based r packages, only opengl to webgl conversion packages, which outputs a file.