A Mac binary package for RGtk2 is available on CRAN. So the documentation of
Rattle probably needs to be updated.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Corrado Giannasca <corrado.g@inwind.it>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to install the source package RGtk2
> (RGtk2_2.12.5-3.tar.gz) on a i-Mac running os x 10.4.11:
>   Nome modello:        iMac
>   Identificatore modello:      iMac6,1
>   Nome processore:     Intel Core 2 Duo
>   Velocità processore: 2.16 GHz
>   Numero di processori:        1
>   Numero totale di nuclei:     2
>   L2 Cache (per processore):   4 MB
>   Memoria:     2 GB
>   Velocità bus:        667 MHz
>   Versione Boot ROM:   IM61.0093.B07
>   Versione SMC:        1.10f3
>
> This is a step needed to use Rattle package, as detailed in:
>
> http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Installation_Details.html:
> "...Mac/OSX: download the source package from ggobi,2.12 and run the
> command line install:
> Mac/OSX: $ R CMD INSTALL RGtk2_2.8.6.tar.gz   (30 minutes)
>
> You may not be able to compile RGtk2 via the R GUI on Mac/OSX as the
> GTK libraries can not be found when gcc is called. Once installed
> though, R will detect the package--don't try to load it within the
> GUI as GTK is not a native Mac/OSX application and it will fail. On
> Mac/OSX be sure to run R from the X11 environment. ..."
>
> The installation is performed in a Terminal window with the following
> command:
>
> corradogiannasca$ R CMD INSTALL RGtk2_2.12.5-3.tar.gz
>
> There is a long listing in output and the installation fails with the
> following statement:
>
> ............
> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> make: *** [RGtk2.so] Error 1
> chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/library/
> RGtk2/libs/i386/*: No such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RGtk2'
> ** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/
> library/RGtk2'
>
> CAN ANYONE HELP IN RESOLVING THIS ERROR?
>
> Thank you very much for your support.
>
> Corrado Giannasca
>
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