[R] RGtk2 problems

[Aref]

Thank you for the response and I am sorry about the html--will
remember next time.
The version of RGtk2 installed is 2.20.8 I installed it through R from
CRAN repository.
I believe that the problem is that during the installation the
environment variable GTK_BASEPATH was set to some other location than
where GTK+ was installed--overwritten by the R installation process. I
found this after I fixed the issue by copying the libraries into R
\bin. This is probably not the best solution but it works. I will be
updating R soon to 2.14 when it comes out and hopefully things will
work better now that I have the environment variable pointing to the
right place for the GTK+ libraries.


On Oct 24, 12:12 am, Prof Brian Ripley <rip... at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Please update your R (and probably your RGtk2: you did not tell us its
> version), as the posting guide asked you to do before posting.
>
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Aref Nammari wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I hope this is the right place to ask for help with a problem I am
> > having with RGtk2 installation with R on Windows XP.
> > I am running R 2.11.1 and have installed the package RGtk2 from CRAN.
>
> As a binary package, I guess, but please tell us (it matters).
>
> > I also have GTK 2.10.11 installed as well as GTK2-runtime 2.22.0. I
> > have added the environment variable GTK_PATH and set its value to the
> > root location where GTK is installed.
>
> But you need the Gtk+ bin directory in your PATH.  Environment
> variable GTK_PATH is only needed when RGtk2 is installed from the
> sources.
>
> Which Gtk+ you need in your path depends on the version of RGtk2 you
> have and how you installed it.  For current binary versions, see
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe
>
>
>
> > When I try to run RGtk2 in R by
> > typing library(RGtk2) a popup dialog appears with the following error
> > message:
>
> > The procedure entry point gdk_app_launch_context_get_type could not be
> > located in the dynamic link library libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll
>
> > In the R window I get :
>
> > Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
> >  unable to load shared library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.1/library/RGtk2/
> > libs/RGtk2.dll':
> >  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
>
> > Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
> > Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'RGtk2', details:
> >  call: install_all()
> >  error: This platform is not yet supported by the automatic
> > installer. Please install GTK+ manually, if necessary. See:
> >http://www.gtk.org<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.gtk.org&usg=AFQjCNFJhHsdo...>
> > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RGtk2'
>
> > Any help in figuring out what could be the problem is greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> > Cheers,
>
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