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.

Solution

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