The gain from updating will be that RGtk2 now looks in a specific (internal)
place for the libraries, so you should no longer need to worry about library
conflicts and PATH settings. In theory.

Michael

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Aref <arefnammari@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the response and I am sorry about the html--will
> remember next time.
> The version of RGtk2 installed is 2.20.8 I installed it through R from
> CRAN repository.
> I believe that the problem is that during the installation the
> environment variable GTK_BASEPATH was set to some other location than
> where GTK+ was installed--overwritten by the R installation process. I
> found this after I fixed the issue by copying the libraries into R
> \bin. This is probably not the best solution but it works. I will be
> updating R soon to 2.14 when it comes out and hopefully things will
> work better now that I have the environment variable pointing to the
> right place for the GTK+ libraries.
>
>
> On Oct 24, 12:12 am, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Please update your R (and probably your RGtk2: you did not tell us its
> > version), as the posting guide asked you to do before posting.
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Aref Nammari wrote:
> > > Hello,
> >
> > > I hope this is the right place to ask for help with a problem I am
> > > having with RGtk2 installation with R on Windows XP.
> > > I am running R 2.11.1 and have installed the package RGtk2 from CRAN.
> >
> > As a binary package, I guess, but please tell us (it matters).
> >
> > > I also have GTK 2.10.11 installed as well as GTK2-runtime 2.22.0. I
> > > have added the environment variable GTK_PATH and set its value to the
> > > root location where GTK is installed.
> >
> > But you need the Gtk+ bin directory in your PATH.  Environment
> > variable GTK_PATH is only needed when RGtk2 is installed from the
> > sources.
> >
> > Which Gtk+ you need in your path depends on the version of RGtk2 you
> > have and how you installed it.  For current binary versions, see
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe
> >
> >
> >
> > > When I try to run RGtk2 in R by
> > > typing library(RGtk2) a popup dialog appears with the following error
> > > message:
> >
> > > The procedure entry point gdk_app_launch_context_get_type could not be
> > > located in the dynamic link library libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll
> >
> > > In the R window I get :
> >
> > > Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
> > >  unable to load shared library 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.1/library/RGtk2/
> > > libs/RGtk2.dll':
> > >  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
> >
> > > Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
> > > Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'RGtk2', details:
> > >  call: install_all()
> > >  error: This platform is not yet supported by the automatic
> > > installer. Please install GTK+ manually, if necessary. See:
> > >http://www.gtk.org<
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.gtk.org&usg=AFQjCNFJhHsdo...>
> > > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RGtk2'
> >
> > > Any help in figuring out what could be the problem is greatly
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > > Cheers,
> >
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