[R] RGtk2 on Debian Testing

[Lorenzo Isella]

Thanks Jan, I am CCing to the list just to let everybody know that your 
suggestion pretty much fixes my problem. Installing RGtk2 was the last 
step to get rattle up and running. Somehow I had problems in running 
rattle with the RGtk2 package from the standard debian testing 
repositories (I suppose the RGtk2 version was not exactly the same).
Cheers

Lorenzo

On 18/02/11 10:24, Jan van der Laan wrote:
> It has been a while back, but I believe I had to install libgtk2.0-dev
> (that was on Ubuntu)
>
> You could also try to install the r-cran-rgtk2 debian-package using
> dpkg, aptitude, or whatever you use as package manager. This makes rgtk
> available for all users.
>
> HTH,
> Jan
>
>
>
> Quoting Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear All,
>> I am running Debian testing on my system for the amd64 architecture,
>> When trying to install the RGtk package I get this error
>>
>>
>>> install.packages('RGtk2')
>> Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> trying URL
>> 'http://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.8.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2637806 bytes (2.5 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 2.5 Mb
>>
>> * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
>> checking for GTK... no
>> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RGtk2’
>> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RGtk2’
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>> ‘/tmp/RtmpMTHLGF/downloaded_packages’
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("RGtk2") :
>> installation of package 'RGtk2' had non-zero exit status
>>
>> Does anyone know why there is a mismatch between my GTK and the one
>> required by R?
>> Should I enable some particular R repositories (I know that the
>> previous Debian testing was released a few days ago, but I do not know
>> if this is relevant).
>> Any suggestion is welcome.
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
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