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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'rvtk: Bindings for the Visualization Toolkit (''VTK'')'
version: 0.1.3
abstract: 'Provides pre-compiled static ''VTK'' libraries and headers so that downstream
  R packages can link against the Visualization Toolkit without requiring users to
  install ''VTK'' manually. On all platforms the package first honours a user-supplied
  ''VTK_DIR'' environment variable. On macOS it then tries ''Homebrew'', followed
  by ''pkg-config''. On Linux it tries ''pkg-config'' and well-known system prefixes
  (''/usr'', ''/usr/local''). If no suitable system installation is found on macOS
  or Linux, pre-built static libraries are downloaded automatically from the package''s
  GitHub releases. On Windows the package tries ''VTK_DIR'', then ''Rtools45'' ''pacman'',
  then common ''MSYS2'' prefixes, accepting both static (''.a'') and shared (''.dll.a''
  import libs + DLLs) installations. When shared libraries are used, the VTK DLLs
  are staged in ''inst/vtk-dlls/'' and an ''.onLoad'' hook prepends that directory
  to PATH via ''Sys.setenv()'' when the package is loaded, and restored in ''.onUnload()''.
  The pre-built fallback downloads static libraries by default; set ''VTK_LINK_TYPE=shared''
  before installation to download the DLL build instead. Note that on Windows the
  modules ''VTK_IONetCDF'', ''VTK_IOHDF'', ''VTK_GeovisCore'', and ''VTK_RenderingCore''
  are disabled because ''netcdf'' and ''libproj'' are not available in the ''Rtools45''
  ''static.posix'' sysroot. Downstream packages can declare ''Imports: rvtk'' and
  obtain the correct compiler and linker flags at install time via rvtk::CppFlags()
  and rvtk::LdFlagsFile().'
authors:
- family-names: Stamm
  given-names: Aymeric
  email: aymeric.stamm@cnrs.fr
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8725-3654
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/astamm/rvtk
commit: 688f527eaa01a4a8886732734af6240ad460b0c1
url: https://github.com/astamm/rvtk
date-released: '2026-05-11'
contact:
- family-names: Stamm
  given-names: Aymeric
  email: aymeric.stamm@cnrs.fr
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8725-3654