How to export an interactive rgl 3D Plot to share or publish?

Question

I have made an interactive 3D plot in R using the rgl package. I would like to be able to send it (and keep it interactive) to a colleague so she can present it (rotate it) in a meeting on her laptop. Is there a way to do this?

Here is the code I used to generate the plot:

And this is the plot:

library(rgl)
plot3d(pcaGB$x[,1:3], col=gbMeta2.5K$gbColor, type='s', size=1)

I am then using this code to export it to HTML using writeWebGL, but without any luck so far:

browseURL(paste("file://", writeWebGL(dir=file.path("~/Documents/", "webGL"), width=700), sep=""))

This is what I get back in a browser window:

I've also tried using just writeWebGL but that creates a folder in the directory with an index.html file that opens the same image as above in the browser.

Rockyrococo

Thanks, but I need it to still be interactive upon exporting, so that she can rotate it herself. – Rockyrococo

Yes, I tried it but it doesn't seem to be working. And also I don't know how I would share it with her if it did ... ? – Rockyrococo

Thanks for your response. I have added the code I've been trying to use writeWebGL to my question. It just opens a browser window with an error :( – Rockyrococo

try making the figure, then just writeWebGL() should create a folder webGL in your working directory with the stuff in it – Frill

Still not working. I tried with just writeWebGL(), but that made a folder in the directory with a CanvasMatrix.jl file, an index.html file and a snapshot.png that looks like a close up of one of the edges of the cube. – Rockyrococo

Answer 1

You can export the interactive plot to html using knitr. For the details see: including a interactive 3D figure with knitr.

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