On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Brian Lunergan <ff809@ncf.ca> wrote:

> Good morning folks:
>
> Made a second go at installing this and succeeded, but with some strange
> behaviours along the way. First the system back story.
>
>
My only guess is that installing RGtk2 from source is only possible if you
have the gtk-devel package installed, i.e., the one with the headers.
Otherwise, you'll need the r-cran-rgtk2 binary.

Michael

Using up to date edition Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Using up to date edition of R 2.10.1
>
> Using the Toronto, Ontario repository to draw from.
>
> After the first attempt ended up with two of the four dependencies
> installed so only the Rgtk related items would be needed this time. Went
> into synaptic and found r-cran-rgtk2. Okay. Sounded likely so I installed
> it successfully.
>
Using a root terminal session I went back into R and ran
> install.packages("formatR"). Pulled in two dependencies plus the main
> choice. Rejected one and kept two when it came time to install but still
> installed successfully, or so it seemed when I ran library(formatR). Go
> figure. A copy of the message run follows. Any comments or suggestions will
> be of interest.
>
> > install.packages("formatR")
> Warning in install.packages("formatR") :
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> also installing the dependencies ‘RGtk2’, ‘gWidgetsRGtk2’
>
> trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.12.18.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2206504 bytes (2.1 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.1 Mb
>
> trying URL '
> http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-64.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 138192 bytes (134 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 134 Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/formatR_0.1-3.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2672 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2672 bytes
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for LIBGLADE... no
> configure: WARNING: libglade not found
> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
> checking for GTK... no
> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RGtk2’
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RGtk2’
> * installing *source* package ‘gWidgetsRGtk2’ ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (gWidgetsRGtk2)
> * installing *source* package ‘formatR’ ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: gWidgets
> Loading required package: MASS
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (formatR)
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        ‘/tmp/RtmpNL20Be/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("formatR") :
>  installation of package 'RGtk2' had non-zero exit status
> >
>
> --
> Brian Lunergan
> Nepean, Ontario
> Canada
>
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