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

[R. Michael Weylandt]

I can't replicate the problem on my system (OS X) and I don't know
enough about the Gtk + tcltk frameworks to help diagnose it outside of
R -- it might be worth working up a minimal (non-)working example
along the lines of:

michaelweylandt$ R --vanilla

library(playwith)
playwith(plot(1:10))


and sending it to the maintainer (use the maintainer()) function to
get contact info.

Michael

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Farhat Maha <marhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Michael,
> gwindow() command does work. and here is my sessionInfo
>
>> gwindow()
> guiWidget of type: gWindowRGtk for toolkit: guiWidgetsToolkitRGtk2
>
> (opens a window)
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tcltk     grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils
>
> [7] datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] RGtk2_2.20.21        gridBase_0.4-4
>  [3] gWidgetstcltk_0.0-48 digest_0.5.1
>  [5] tcltk2_1.1-5         playwith_0.9-53
>  [7] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-78 gWidgets_0.0-47
>
>  [9] cairoDevice_2.19     lattice_0.20-0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.1
>
>
> again any advice appreciated.
> Maha
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:05 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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