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@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@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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