[R-SIG-Mac] cairoDevice and GTK under MacOS

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 5, 2010, at 12:03 AM, John Maindonald wrote:

> Arising from my recent interchange with Professor Ripley, it seems that there is no current binary for cairoDevice that works under R 2.11.0 or 2.11.1.  

Seems?!? Based on what?!? Brian said clearly that there is a binary and it works for him -- so it does for me!

You never told us what *you* are using so there is not much we can do for you - from the output it seemed that you are using the wrong packages with wrong R versions so this is not about CRAN at all. His comments were based on the assumption that you are trying to build something for yourself because the CRAN packages work fine.

Cheers,
Simon


> This is in spite of the
> current CRAN package check results that have OK for
> cairoDevice under r-release MacOS X ix86
> 
> With each new release of R (and maybe release of OSX), 
> there seems a sizeable risk that the cairoDevice/GTK 
> combination will fail.
> 
> Is cairoDevice/GTK  in for the long haul?  Or is it likely
> to be superseded by other GUI interface approaches?
> If it is in for the long haul, what are the odds of getting
> quickly to a point where one can have confidence that
> it will be usable under OSX when a new version of R 
> appears?  
> 
> This is not a criticism of the excellent work that has gone
> into building cairoDevice/GTK.  Restriction of some
> software to some systems has to be accepted as a fact
> of life, especially where there is a large element of
> innovation.  Rather, it is a request for any insight that 
> may be available from those on this list who have some 
> limited ability to peer into the future, or even actual
> knowledge of the future!
> 
> I guess that some part of the answer will in due course
> come from commercial users of R.   What is available
> on the Mac may become more important now that Google
> is, apparently, giving up support internally for use of 
> Windows systems.
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html
> 
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