[R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 on Mac -- problems installing...

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Excellent!  And just to confirm -- this will only work within the X11 
environment, not the Cocoa/Quartz GUI, right?

--j

Simon Urbanek wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 16:00 , Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> 
>> Hi all:
>>
>>     I've got R 2.8.0 on MacOS X 10.4.11, and I'm trying to get RGtk2 
>> working so I can use some other libaries that require it.  When 
>> installing it normally, it asks me if I want to install the GTK 
>> runtime, which downloads but then fails to install.  I manually 
>> downloaded the GTK runtime installer from http://r.research.att.com/, 
>> which installed fine, but R doesn't seem to "see" it (it continues to 
>> ask me if I want to install GTK when trying to load the libary).  Any 
>> tricks to getting this to work?  I feel like there might be an 
>> environment variable missing someplace, but I have no idea what the 
>> variable is nor how to define it permanently for R.
>>
> 
> The GTK+ binary for R 2.8.0 has been updated and it uses a different 
> location to prevent messing up other packages. That makes it 
> incompatible with the old GTK used for R 2.7.2 and earlier. The new 
> binary  is available from
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/
> 
> To install paste in Terminal:
> 
> curl -s 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK+_2.14.3-X11-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz \
> | sudo tar fvxz - -C /
> 
> There should be a proper package installer shortly, I was just waiting 
> for some feedback from selected developers first.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 

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