[R-sig-Debian] Rattle - libglade not found

[Michael Rutter]

Graham,

The instructions for adding the CRAN repositories are here:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

But let me expand on them a little.  This is assuming you have sudo 
rights.  If you do not, forward this email to your administrator.

In a terminal, enter

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

At the very end of this file, add the following two lines:

## CRAN

deb http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu <http://%3Cmy.favorite.cran.mirror%3E/bin/linux/ubuntu> jaunty/


Save and close the editor.  Then in the terminal run these lines:

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base


This will authenticate the code, remove the old R and install the newest 
version.

For a program like R in which there is constant development and bug 
fixes (but not many), it is a good idea to use the most recent version 
from CRAN.

Michael



Graham Smith wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Thanks, 2.8.1 is the most up to date in the Ubuntu Repository, so that
> is the one I am using with Ubuntu. As a novice Ubuntu user I have been
> given the impression that it is best to stick with the version via
> synaptic/ubuntu repository BUT i agree this could well be a version
> incompatibility issue as rattle isn't available from the Ubuntu
> repository and installed directly from CRAN.
>
> Maybe I need to uninstall the Ubuntu repository version and install
> the latest from CRAN. I admit I find this what to install from where a
> bit confusing.
>
> Graham
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/10/30 Paul Leo <p.leo at uq.edu.au>:
>   
>> That a very outdated version of R, current is R2.10
>>
>> I just installed r2.10 and used
>> setRepositories() # choose CRAN
>> install.packages() # choose rattle
>> ...
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> Loading required package: XML
>> Warning: package 'XML' was built under R version 2.7.1 and help may not
>> work correctly
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices ...
>> * DONE (rattle)
>>
>> ... ignored warnings:
>>
>> library(rattle)
>> rattle() # launched a gui interface that seems to work
>>
>>     
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>       
>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] RGtk2_2.12.5-3 rattle_2.5.1   pmml_1.2.19    XML_1.95-3
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tcltk_2.10.0 tools_2.10.0
>>
>> so perhaps a new intall and check those "attached packages listed above"
>> I have ubuntu 8.1 so you may need to check those library versions
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com>
>> To: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R-sig-Debian] Rattle - libglade not found
>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:07:02 +0000
>>
>> I have just installed rattle on Ubntu 9.04, and R  2.8.1 and get an
>> error message when I try to run it.
>>
>>     
>>> library(rattle)
>>> rattle()
>>>       
>> Error in rattle() :
>>  The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.
>>
>> I have installed libglade2-dev  through synaptic, and following
>> suggestion from an earlier thread re-installed RGtk2 using
>> install.packages, and through synaptic.
>>
>> Can anyone offer some help - you may realise that I am not that
>> familiar with Linux/Ubuntu.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> P.S. I have cross posted this on the Ubuntu forum, before remembering
>> this forum existed.
>>
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>>
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