[R-SIG-Mac] rggobi: Installation problems on OS X Snow Leopard

[Simon Urbanek]

Elisabeth,

rggobi is currently not available from CRAN because RGtk2 (which is  
required by rggobi) does not work with 64-bit R.

You can try to compile your own rggobi in 32-bit (at your own risk) as  
follows:

a) install Xcode from the Snow Leopard DVD (if you didn't already)

b) download and install GTK+ and ggobi -- e.g. by typing this in the  
Terminal:

cd /tmp
curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK+_2.14.3-X11-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz
curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/ggobi-2.1.8-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz
# after the next line it will ask you for your password
sudo tar fxz GTK+_2.14.3-X11-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz -C /
sudo tar fxz ggobi-2.1.8-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz -C /
rm -f GTK+_2.14.3-X11-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz
rm -f ggobi-2.1.8-darwin8-bin2.tar.gz

c) install RGtk2 and rggobi form sources -- again in Terminal:

export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin:/usr/ 
local/ggobi/bin:$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/ 
lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/ggobi/lib/pkgconfig

cd /tmp
curl -O http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.12.15.tar.gz
curl -O http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/rggobi_2.1.14.tar.gz

# this will take forever so be patient ...
R --arch=i386 CMD INSTALL RGtk2_2.12.15.tar.gz
R --arch=i386 CMD INSTALL rggobi_2.1.14.tar.gz

# that's it -- note that you'll need X11 of course

Cheers,
Simon



On Jan 8, 2010, at 10:47 , Elizabeth Nichols wrote:

> Hello:
> I have successfully installed both R and R64  for Apple OS X from
> CRAN  plus GTK+2.14 and GGobi 2.1.8 from:
> http://www.ggobi.org/downloads
>
> I launch either R or R64 and try to install the rrgobi package and get
> (with R64) the following:
>
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> [R.app GUI 1.31 (5537) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
>> install.packages("rggobi")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
> package ‘rggobi’ is not available
>>
>
> I get substantially the same thing with R.
>
> Here is some info about my OS:
> System Version:       Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
> Kernel Version:       Darwin 10.2.0
> Boot Mode:    Normal
> Secure Virtual Memory:        Not Enabled
> 64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Any help would be MOST appreciated.
> Thanks
> Betsy
>
>
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