[R] Puzzled about loading the Rattle interface package...

[Eric Berger]

Hi Brian,
I have never tried Rattle but I did a quick search and found this link
which might give some clues.

https://book.huihoo.com/data-mining-desktop-survival-guide/Installing_GTK.html

Good luck,
Eric


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Brian Lunergan <ff809 using ncf.ca> wrote:
>
> Evening folks:
>
> Hope I'm in the right place to ask this.
>
> Running R 4.1.2 on Linux Mint 19.3. I do have R Commander and R Studio
> in place and working, so I'm not without choices for a GUI to use R.
> However, I wanted to try out the Rattle interface.
>
> The package installs OK, but it apparently needs the RGtk2 package to
> run its graphic state. When I try to install that package I get the
> following:
>
> > install.packages("RGtk2")
> Installing package into ‘/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.36.2.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2792234 bytes (2.7 MB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.7 MB
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
> ** package ‘RGtk2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** using staged installation
> 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 ‘/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RGtk2’
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>         ‘/tmp/Rtmphfaxc3/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("RGtk2") :
>   installation of package ‘RGtk2’ had non-zero exit status
> >
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to solve this. Any help would be
> appreciated. Otherwise, I guess I'd be SOL for trying it out and fall
> back to my existing two options.
>
> Thanks...
> --
> Brian Lunergan
> Russell, ON
> Canada
>
>
>
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