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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 16:20 , Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

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

It works just fine with the GUI, but the windows it's creating will  
use X11, not native Cocoa. The native version of GTK+ is unfortunately  
not stable enough yet.

Cheers,
Simon


>
> 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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