[R-sig-Debian] Installation woes for rattle - partial success.

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 February 2010 at 17:12, Prof. John C Nash wrote:
| Below is how I got a clean Ubuntu Karmic VM to start rattle. I didn't actually try 
| calculations. Mixture of Paul and Dirk advice.
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| - Changed /etc/apt/sources to use the CRAN debian repository for Ubuntu Karmic, i.e.,
|     deb http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu karmic/
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|     I did NOT use cran2deb.
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| - Installed (via apt-get) tk-dev and tcl-dev and r-base
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| - started R as root  (but kept a second root terminal open for apt-get etc.)
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|    install.packages("XML") complained of no xml2-config, so installed
|    libxml2-dev via apt
|    XML then installs in R

Here you could have done

     $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml

The rest looks good.

|    pmml also installs
|    rattle "installs", but when started wants RGtk2. I chose to install
|    via apt (r-cran-rgtk2)
|    rattle then starts in R, but complains it wants cairodevice
|    via apt installed r-cran-cairodevice
|    Same process got a complaint about colorspace
|    via apt installed r-cran-colorspace.
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| This gave a clean startup.
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| Should this be in a script to save other folk troubles?

Why not stick it on the R Wiki?

Glad you got it working.

Dirk

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| For Jaunty and Hardy and debian stable it looks like the dependencies ask for versions 
| that are not available. Is there a recommended tool for revealing the required versions? 
| The R error msg "The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it." is 
| really less than informative. Dirk recommends a scalpel rather than a chainsaw, but I feel 
| like I'm using the scalpel to fell a redwood 20' across.
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| JN
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