[R-sig-Debian] The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

On 01/16/11 10:26, Liviu Andronic wrote:
[...]
> Can you report sessionInfo()? 

Yes.

It is 

    > sessionInfo()
    R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
    Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

    locale:
     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_US       
     [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US     LC_MONETARY=C        LC_MESSAGES=en_US   
     [7] LC_PAPER=en_US       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C        
    [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 

    attached base packages:
    [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

    other attached packages:
    [1] rattle_2.5.32 pmml_1.2.22   XML_3.2-0    


> Have you tried update.packages(checkBuilt=T,
> ask=F)? 

I have not, if only because many of my R packages
were installed outside of R with Debian's command
line tool named "aptitude", and I'd like to avoid
incompatibilities from using a second package
manager.

Thanks,
Kingsley

> A quick search on Rseek showed something
> relevant in the rattle Changelog [1]; it might
> make sense to contact the maintainer.
> 
> Regards
> Liviu
> 
> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rattle/ChangeLog
> 
> 
> > Cheers,
> > ~K
> >
> > On 01/16/11 09:44, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
> >> <kingsley at loaner.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I'm looking forward to mining some new data six
> >> > ways from Sunday with a great looking R
> >> > application named "rattle".
> >> >
> >> > May I please have the benefit of this list's
> >> > informed thoughts on how to debug an installation
> >> > error?
> >> >
> >> > On Debian Linux's unstable release, I've done
> >> >
> >> >    root$ aptitude install r-cran-rattle
> >> >    root$ aptitude install r-cran-rgtk2
> >> >    user$ R
> >> >    > library(rattle)
> >> >    > rattle()
> >> >
> >> > but when I try to run rattle, I get
> >> >
> >> >    Error in rattle() :
> >> >      The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.
> >> >    In addition: Warning message:
> >> >    In infoDialog(sprintf(Rtxt("The package '%s' is required to %s.",  :
> >> >      The package 'colorspace' is required to choose appropriate colors for plots. It does not appear to be installed. Please consider installing it, perhaps with the following R command:
> >> >
> >> >    install.packages('colorspace')
> >> >
> >> >    to use the full functionality of Rattle.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone here happen to know how to install
> >> > libglade on Debian Linux?
> >> >
> >> Open Synaptic, search for libglade and install libglade2-0. But I'm
> >> surprised that the .debs do not take care automatically of such a dep.
> >> Regards
> >> Liviu
> >>
> >>
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Kingsley
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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