[Rd] rggobi not in bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6/PACKAGES on CRAN

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 04:08:30 CEST 2007


On 9/25/07, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:33 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
>
> > On 9/25/07, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Herve Pages wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> R-2.6 + install.packages() doesn't find rggobi on Mac OS X.
> >>> The .tgz file is here:
> >>>
> >>>   http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6/
> >>>
> >>> but it is not listed in the PACKAGES file:
> >>>
> >>>   http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6/PACKAGES
> >>>
> >>> Any idea why?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, because it doesn't work - please see the check results:
> >> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html
> >>
> >> I have verified it today and the ggobi binary from the ggobi pages is
> >> still not fixed.
> >
> > What's wrong with it?  We haven't any problems reported.
> >
>
> It's linking to a non-existent libfreetype (see the output of the
> make check) and it got reported to me a month ago by Heike. At that
> time we also discussed the fix and I was assuming that you were in
> the loop (I guess you have a dynamic freetype masking the static one
> in /usr/local/lib).

I thought I had fixed that - are you sure you have downloaded
recently?  Another guy reported the problem and the updated version
worked for him.

Hadley

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