[Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Janko Thyson
<janko.thyson.rstuff at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10.06.2011 13:00, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Janko Thyson
> <janko.thyson.rstuff at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for
> a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.
>
> 1. Use the automatically installed GTk2, not some other version.
>
> Thanks for answering. I didn't even know there GTk2 already ships with R.
> Prof. Brian Ripley linked me to the readme file with recommendations with
> respect to an GTK2 distribution to use:
>
> "What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on cannot be
> found.  See the instructions at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe "
>
> 2. Note that the automatically installed one will be at
> ...\GTk2-runtime\bin and that will be put at the *end* of your PATH.
> Change it so that its at the beginning of your PATH to be sure its not
> picking up something else.
>
> My R distribution does not seem to have such a directory (standard windows
> R-2.13.0 installer from CRAN)
> How do I manage to have this ...\GTk2-runtime\bin directory available?

#1 is referring to the fact that when you run RGTk2 it will ask you if
you want it to install GTk2.  Say yes and let it install that version
to be sure you are using the right one.  If you install it yourself
manually instead you could very easily install the wrong version.

The only problem with the automatic installation is that it puts the
GTk2 dll's at the end of your PATH so you can't be sure that something
else on your path (such as graphviz which has its own potentially
conflicting dll's) won't interfere.  To fix that change the PATH so
that GTk2 is at the beginning (or at least before anything else that
could interere).

>
> Thanks a lot,
> Janko
>
> 3. If you are changing the path through the control panel and starting
> R from the command line note that your new path won't be picked up in
> old command line sessions so start a new command line session to start
> R.
>
> 4. When you start a new R session double check that the automatically
> installed ...\GTk2-runtime\bin is at the beginning of your path:
>
>          strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]
>
>
>
>
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