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

Graham Smith myotisone at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 17:44:15 CET 2009 

OK,

I have renamed .RData and this has allowed R to run.  I thought R
might have created a new default .RData file, but it hasn't.

Can I just delete this .RData file and let R sort itself out?

Graham

2009/10/30 Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com>:
> The ghost of my previous attempt to install rattle lives on in .RData
> and is preventing me opening R :-)
>
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rattle'
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>
> R auto exits at that point
>
> See  below for full message
>
> So I'm afraid I could do with a bit more help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> =======================
>
> graham at T42-laptop:~$ R
>
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
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> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rattle'
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>
> =====================================================
>
> 2009/10/30 Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com>:
>> Michael,
>>
>> Thanks, I did think it looked a bit strange compared to the other
>> entries. Update is now downloading, so we will see how I get on.
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> 2009/10/30 Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu>:
>>> Graham,
>>>
>>> It appears that the mail client I was using added some extra stuff.  It
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> deb http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
>>>
>>> Just tested this line in my sources.list and it came back fine.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> Graham Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for this, I have added CRAN like this before, during one of
>>>> many other attempts with Linux, but if If I add your code as suggested
>>>> or add the repository via synaptic, I get a 404 error
>>>>
>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>
>>>> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/<http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu>/jaunty//binary-i386/Packages
>>>>  404 Not Found
>>>>
>>>> I have also tried the UK and Netherlands mirrors as well, but both of
>>>> these also give a 404 error.
>>>>
>>>> I assume I am doing something stupid.
>>>>
>>>> Graham
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/10/30 Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Dr Paul Leo
>>>>>>> Bioinformatician
>>>>>>> Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine
>>>>>>> University of Queensland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>> --
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>>>
>>
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