[R] gWidgets install

john verzani jverzani at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 04:15:34 CEST 2008


Tim Smith <tim_smith_666 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Thanks Charlie - I just tried it, but still get the same error:
> 
> -------------------------------
> > install.packages("gWidgets",dependencies=TRUE)

... 

> > library(gWidgets)
> Error in fun(...) : 
> 
> *** gWidgets requires a toolkit implementation to be
>  installed, for instance gWidgetsRGtk2, gWidgetstcltk, or gWidgetsrJava***
> 



Try installing gWidgetstcltk. That will allow you to use gWidgets with the tcltk
package. Although the RGtk2 package works better with gWidgets, the tcltk one
will require no extra software to install under windows.

--John



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