[R] Failing to install {rggobi} on win-7 R 2.12.0

[Yihui Xie]

According to my experience, you should NOT download the GTK version
from GGobi's website. That version won't work for R 2.12.0 and rggobi.
So first, remove that version of GTK; then follow the instructions
from library(RGtk2) to download and install the more recent version of
GTK+. Then everything should be fine, except library(rggobi) will
still complain that libxml2.dll is missing. [I don't guarantee the
rest of steps work] You might need to download libxml2
(http://xmlsoft.org/) and manually put its dll's under your PATH (e.g.
the bin directory of GTK+).

Regards,
Yihui
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am failing to install the package rggobi on windows 7 with R 2.12.0.
> On R 2.11.1, the package was installed fine.
>
> I asked for help on the rggobi google group 4 days ago, and didn't receive
> any help, so I was wondering if someone here might have a suggestion.
>
> Here are the details:
>
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>
>
> I am having a similar (bot not exact) problem as Tom had here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/ggobi/browse_thread/thread/67b7260d074d710c
>
> I downloaded and installed all components. (GTK was placed in d:\\GTK)
>
> When I try to load the rggobi library (library(rggobi) it offers me to
> install GTK+ because it can't find the dll (even that all of
> the dll it is looking for are present in the path environment
> Sys.getenv("PATH")
> Sys.getenv("GTK_BASEPATH")
> )
>
> When answering "no" to the installation of GTK, I get the following
> error in a popping window:
> "the procedure entry point g_malloc_n could not be located in the
> dynamic link library libglic-2.0-0.dll"
>
> I then get the following errors in the R console:
> "Loading required package: rggobi
> Error in library.dynam("RGtk2", pkgname, libname) :
>  DLL 'RGtk2' not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?
> Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
> Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
> If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is
> installed and that it is on your PATH environment variable
> IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>  unable to load shared object 'd:/Program Files/R/library/rggobi/libs/
> i386/rggobi.dll':
>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
> "
>
>
> I also tried running R as "an administrator", but it didn't fix the
> problem (only added another error popup window with the massage:
> "the procedure entry point cairo_glyph_allocate could not be located
> in the dynamic link library libcairo-2.dll")
>
>
> Here is my sessionInfo:
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Hebrew_Israel.1255  LC_CTYPE=Hebrew_Israel.1255
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Hebrew_Israel.1255 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Hebrew_Israel.1255
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base
>>
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>
> Thank you for any advice.
>
> Best,
> Tal
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