[R-SIG-Mac] rgl for r-devel (2.14.0)?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> This is not really what you are asking about, but note that you are
> using the wrong R if you are trying to make sure your package will
> work with soon-to-be-released R-2.13.   You need to check out from
> branches-2-13 and not from trunk.

I suspect Roger did mean R-devel (probably because Kurt checks CRAN 
submisions on R-devel), but that's a fortnight-old version of R-devel, 
and a lot has changed in that fortnight.

But to the point: that is a reference to FreeType.  So, do you have 
FreeType installed, and if so which version?  As far as I know the one 
I am using came from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/devpack4-darwin8-bin4.tar.gz
and I've just installed rgl under R-devel to check.

>
> Kasper
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Roger Koenker <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> I'm trying to do some package checking for quantreg in R-devel
>>
>>        2.14.0 Under development (unstable) (2011-03-16 r54826)
>>
>> installing most of my usual package list from source went quite smoothly, but I'm
>> having trouble with rgl  -- if someone has a hint about the following
>> messages that would be most appreciated:
>>
>>
>>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>>> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rgl', details:
>>>  call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
>>>  error: unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl/libs/x86_64/rgl.so':
>>>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl/libs/x86_64/rgl.so, 6): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
>>>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl/libs/x86_64/rgl.so
>>>  Expected in: flat namespace
>>> in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/rgl/libs/x86_64/rgl.so
>>> Error in tools:::.test_load_package("rgl", "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library") :
>>>  loading failed
>>
>> Roger Koenker
>> rkoenker at illinois.edu
>

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