[R] Flaw in the installation procedure ?

[Uwe Ligges]

Well, that package depends on packages rggobi, ggplot2, e1071, and 
cluster. And rggobi depends on package RGtk2 which requires GTK 2 to be 
installed on your system (and added to your PATH).

Uwe Ligges






Maura E Monville wrote:
> R printed out the following error messages during the installation of the
> package "clusterfly":
> 
> 
>> *install.packages("clusterfly", repos = getOption("repos"),dependencies
> =TRUE)
> *--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> trying URL '
> http://umfragen.sowi.uni-mainz.de/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/clusterfly_0.2.2.zip
> '
> Content type 'application/zip' length 141793 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 138Kb
> 
> package 'clusterfly' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>         C:\Documents and Settings\mmonville\Local
> Settings\Temp\Rtmpj8JFsb\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
>> help(clusterfly)
> No documentation for 'clusterfly' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try 'help.search("clusterfly")'
>> library(clusterfly)
> Loading required package: rggobi
> Loading required package: RGtk2
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library
> 'C:/DOCUME~1/MMONVI~1/MYDOCU~1/R/R-25~1.1/library/rggobi/libs/rggobi.dll':
>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.
> 
> 
> Error in fun(...) : Could not load the rggobi library - please ensure GGobi
> is on the library path
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'rggobi'
> Error: package 'rggobi' could not be loaded
> Eventually an error-message window popped up reading:
> "RGui: RGui.exex - Uable To Locate Component
> This application failed to start because libggobi-0.dll was not found.
> Re-installig the aplication may fix this problem"
> 
> Any idea what is going on ?
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Maura
> 
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