[R-sig-Debian] Re : Playwith on Mint

[denis brion]

Playwith does not only need cairoDevice, but Rgtk2 (the lowest in the recursion) which does not need any further R packages, but has many _system_ dependencies 
and R "install.packages" can only cope ... with _R_ packages...

"SystemRequirements: 	Cairo (>= 1.0.0), ATK (>= 1.10.0), Pango (>= 1.10.0), GTK+ (>= 2.8.0), GLib (>= 2.8.0)"



If you really want to build playwith by compiling from source (this is slower and more complicated than downloading *binary* packages), these system dependencies should be first satisfied, and the header files should be provided (they are often missing, as there are few advantages in having sources compiled in temporary directories: the libraries (lib*.so) are present and can be found (find /usr -iname libgtk*so* will find a lot of them), but not the headers (canonically in /usr/include/*.h "find /usr -iname *gtk*h" )) :

libgladeui-dev is likely to bring most of the dev packages one needs in such configuration (apt-get is recursive, and it will automagically bring libgtk2*.0-dev, libatk2*-dev, libcairo*-dev, libglib*-dev)... I tried it sometimes.... but it is slow.... and not always satisfying (prepackaged R binaries are carefully tested).

May be it is enough. But it would be *really* faster and perhaps safer to use prepackaged binaries (and, if you want to build from source, you should perhaps start with not such a huge chain of system dependencies).


--- En date de : Lun 22.3.10, Costas Vorlow <costas.vorlow at gmail.com> a écrit :

> De: Costas Vorlow <costas.vorlow at gmail.com>
> Objet: [R-sig-Debian] Playwith on Mint
> À: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
> Date: Lundi 22 mars 2010, 8h35
> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble installing the package playwith on the
> latest Mint
> "helena",
> running  R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14).
> 
> I suspect it has to do with the GTK library but as far as I
> can tell there
> is nothing wrong with it.
> 
> Any help extremely appreciated.
> 
> I include the output:
> 
> > install.packages("playwith")
> 
> Warning in install.packages("playwith") :
> 
>   argument 'lib' is missing: using
> '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> 
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session
> ---
> 
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> 
> also installing the dependency ‘cairoDevice’
> 
> 
> trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/cairoDevice_2.10.tar.gz
> '
> 
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 39058 bytes (38
> Kb)
> 
> opened URL
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> downloaded 38 Kb
> 
> 
> trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/playwith_0.9-45.tar.gz'
> 
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 93505 bytes (91
> Kb)
> 
> opened URL
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> downloaded 91 Kb
> 
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘cairoDevice’ ...
> 
> checking for pkg-config... pkg-config
> 
> ERROR: gtk+2.0 not found by pkg-config.
> 
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘cairoDevice’
> 
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/cairoDevice’
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘playwith’ ...
> 
> ** libs
> 
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include     
> -fpic  -g -O2 -c interrupt.c -o
> interrupt.o
> 
> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o playwith.so interrupt.o
> -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
> 
> ** R
> 
> ** demo
> 
> ** inst
> 
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> 
> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,
> lib.loc = lib.loc) :
> 
>   there is no package called 'cairoDevice'
> 
> Error : package 'cairoDevice' could not be loaded
> 
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘playwith’
> 
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/playwith’
> 
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
> 
> ‘/tmp/RtmpjczApq/downloaded_packages’
> 
> Warning messages:
> 
> 1: In install.packages("playwith") :
> 
>   installation of package 'cairoDevice' had non-zero
> exit status
> 
> 2: In install.packages("playwith") :
> 
>   installation of package 'playwith' had non-zero exit
> status
> 
> >
> 
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