[BioC] Rgraphviz crashes for R 2.11.1 on Windows Vista

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

There is no specific reason for using a "new" version of Graphviz.
Rgraphviz only uses part of the functionality from Graphviz, and I
have not seen anything that indicates that the functionality actually
used is significantly updated (I could be wrong of course).

It is easy to use a newer version of Graphviz on *nix.

If you cannot use the provided binary of Rgraphviz for Vista, you will
need to compile Rgraphviz from source in which case you might be able
to use a newer Graphviz (I have had reports of success with this).
But all of this requires you to setup your windows box for building.

Kasper


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Tae-Hoon Chung <hoontaechung at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got two issues.
>
> (1) I tried to replicate the Rgraphviz Vignette but crashed at plotting
> step.
>
>> library(Rgraphviz)
> Loading required package: graph
> Loading required package: grid
>> set.seed(123)
>> V <- letters[1:10]
>> M <- 1:4
>> g1 <- randomGraph(V, M, 0.2)
>> g1
> A graphNEL graph with undirected edges
> Number of Nodes = 10
> Number of Edges = 16
>> plot(g1)
> … crashed here!
>
> As you can see below, I recently installed R v2.11.1 on Windows Vista.
> The graphviz is version 2.20.3.1 (quite an old one but Rgraphviz
> specifically mentioned this version).
> Any ideas?
>
>> sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Singapore.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Singapore.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Singapore.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Singapore.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Rgraphviz_1.26.0 graph_1.26.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1
>
> (2) If I want to use newer version of graphviz in *nix system (not the
> windows system), is there any hope for this or do I still need to stick to
> the version 2.20.3.1?
> Specifically, I have 64bit R-2.11 on Mac OS X 10.6 in mind.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> TH
>
> --
> Tae-Hoon Chung, PhD
>
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