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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 March 2010 at 15:42, denis brion wrote:
| 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)"

Well, how about

      sudo apt-get install r-cran-rgtk2

There is a reason we try to maintain difficult to install packages. Too bad
too few of you seem to notice...

Dirk

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