[R] R-2.12.0 hangs while installing some packages on FreeBSD

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Rainer Hurling wrote:

> I am working with R-2.12.0 on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT for a while now. I 
> successfully installed more than 300 packages (most as dependencies of 
> others).
>
> There are two packages I am not able to install: RGtk2 and rggobi.
>
> For example rggobi builds fine and after that it wants to load:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> # R CMD INSTALL rggobi_2.1.16.tar.gz
> [..SNIP..]
> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o rggobi.so RSEval.o brush.o 
> colorSchemes.o conversion.o data.o dataset.o display.o displays.o edges.o 
> ggobi.o identify.o init.o io.o keyHandlers.o longitudinal.o modes.o plot.o 
> plots.o plugins.o print.o session.o smooth.o ui.o utils.o -pthread 
> -L/usr/local/lib -lggobi -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 
> -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lXext -lXrender -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr 
> -lXcursor -lXcomposite -lXdamage -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lXfixes -lcairo 
> -lX11 -lpango-1.0 -lm -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 
> -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> installiert nach /usr/local/lib/R/library/rggobi/libs
> ** R
> ** data
> **  moving datasets to lazyload DB
> ** demo
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> At this point the install process is hanging, R utilises no more CPU time. 
> Same with package RGtk2.
>
> Is this a known error? Please let me know if I can give more information or 
> try something different.

Well, those are exactly the two packages using Gtk+.

There is no known general problem, and as you could have checked from 
the CRAN check pages, those packages install without problems on 
several platforms.  (Not Solaris, where ggobi does not install and 
RGtk2 requires gcc, and not x64 Windows where both need to be 
patched.)

So it does look very like there is a problem with loading against the 
Gtk+ system libraries on your system.

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rainer Hurling
>
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