[R] question re. package playwith not able to run command getting error message that I'm attempting to use non function

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Hmmmm....can you give session info (after loading playwith)? I'm able
to get that code to work...also -- can you get the basic RGtk
functions (like gwindow() ) to work?

Michael

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Farhat Maha <marhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I managed to install playwith package and all its prerequisites. My
> R version is R 2.14:
>
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> All my packages were updated, and recently installed. When I attempt
> to use the command playwith I get the following error message:
>
>
>> library(playwith)
> Loading required package: lattice
> Loading required package: cairoDevice
> Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
> Loading required package: gWidgets
> Loading required package: grid
>
>> playwith(plot(1:10))
> Error in playwith(plot(1:10)) : attempt to apply non-function
>
>> playwith(xyplot(Income ~ log(Population / Area),
> +    data = data.frame(state.x77), groups = state.region,
> +    type = c("p", "smooth"), span = 1, auto.key = TRUE,
> +    xlab = "Population density, 1974 (log scale)",
> +    ylab = "Income per capita, 1974")
> + )
> Error in playwith(xyplot(Income ~ log(Population/Area), data =
> data.frame(state.x77),  :
>  attempt to apply non-function
>
>> interactive()
> [1] TRUE
>
>> autoplay(on = TRUE, lattice.on = TRUE, base.on = TRUE, grid.on = TRUE, ask = FALSE)
> Automatic `playwith` for Lattice graphics is now ON.
> Automatic `playwith` for base graphics is now ON.
> Automatic `playwith` for grid graphics is now ON.
>> plot(1:10)
> Error in playwith(plot(1:10), envir = <environment>) :
>  attempt to apply non-function
> Error in plot.xy(xy, type, ...) : plot.new has not been called yet
>
>
>
> Any advice about why it is not working.
> thanks
> Maha
>
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