[Rd] Installation of RGtk2 (PR#10519)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is not a bug, and not appropriate to R-bugs as it is about a 
contributed package.

>From http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ReadMe you will see

   Package RGtk2 requires an installed version of Gtk2 with version
   number >= 2.10.11.

Now, so does GGobi and hence rggobi.  'Installed' includes ensuring they 
are on your path, so if GGobi works I would expect RGtk2 to.


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, caroline.keef at jbaconsulting.co.uk wrote:

> Full_Name: Caroline Keef
> Version: 2.6.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (195.171.203.131)
>
>
> I have tried to install the package rggobi which if I'm right requires the
> package RGtk2
> If I install RGtk2 using the install.packages (I used the UK (Bristol) mirror, I
> haven't tried any other mirror) within R and then use library(RGtk2) I get the
> following message box
>
> "This application has failed to start because libtak-1.0-0.dll was not found.
> Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
>
> I click ok and the following is printed to the R console.
>
> Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library
> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.1/library/RGtk2/libs/RGtk2.dll':
>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.
>
>
> [1] "PLEASE RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN"
> Error in .C("R_gtkInit", length(args), x = args, PACKAGE = "RGtk2") :
>  C symbol name "R_gtkInit" not in DLL for package "RGtk2"
> In addition: Warning message:
> In fun(...) :
>  Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library:Error in dyn.load(file, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library
> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.1/library/RGtk2/libs/RGtk2.dll':
>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.
>
>
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'RGtk2'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RGtk2'
>
> I've re-started R again and the same happened.  I've also tried downloading the
> RGtk2 zip files from the CRAN website and installing from a local zip file
> option which gave the same results.  I haven't tried re-installing R to get
> around this problem.
>
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