[R] RGtk2:::gdkColorToString throws an error

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.03.2010 14:00, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Actually, the problem is more likely that RGtk2 is not built against GTK+
> 2.12 on Windows. I assume you're using an up-to-date version of R. I'll ask
> Uwe about getting a newer version of GTK+.

This actually is GTK+ > 2.12.0.
We can try to upgrade, but that tunred out to be not very easy in the past.

Uwe


>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Wincent<ronggui.huang at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Dear Michael, thanks. I have installed gtk+ 2-12.9 revision 2 from
>> http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/, it still doesn't work.
>> I tried gtk2-runtime-2.16.6-2010-02-24-ash.exe from
>> http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/en/Downloads, it did not
>> solve the issue neither.
>>
>> Could you please give me more hints?  My OS is windows vista.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ronggui
>>
>> On 26 October 2009 23:27, Michael Lawrence<mflawren at fhcrc.org>  wrote:
>>> Hi and sorry for the late reply. The Gdk library is part of the GTK+
>> bundle
>>> (GTK+, Gdk and GdkPixbuf are distributed together and have synchronized
>>> versions). So you'll just need GTK+ 2.12 or higher.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Ronggui Huang<ronggui.huang at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I try to use RGtk2:::gdkColorToString, but it throws an error:
>>>> Error in .RGtkCall("S_gdk_color_to_string", object, PACKAGE = "RGtk2") :
>>>>   gdk_color_to_string exists only in Gdk>= 2.12.0
>>>>
>>>> I know what it means, but don't know to solve this problem because I
>>>> don't know where I can download the referred gdk library. Any
>>>> information? Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> HUANG Ronggui, Wincent
>>>> Doctoral Candidate
>>>> Dept of Public and Social Administration
>>>> City University of Hong Kong
>>>> Home page: http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Wincent Ronggui HUANG
>> Doctoral Candidate
>> Dept of Public and Social Administration
>> City University of Hong Kong
>> http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
>>
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