[R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 185, Issue 6

[cgw m@ili@g off witthoft@com]

Well... 

Assuming all your users are on the same platform (OS), why not compile
and distribute a zip of the binaries?

On 2018-08-22 06:00, r-sig-mac-request using r-project.org wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:31:36 +0000
> From: Tom Elliott <tom.elliott using auckland.ac.nz>
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> Hi all,
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> No luck exploring other avenues to find a solution - asking users (mostly students, computer novices) to install homebrew in order to install gtk+ isn't a viable option. 
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> Does anyone (Simon?) know if anything will be done on the CRAN side to compile and provide binaries for RGtk2 (and a handful of other packages)? 
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> Cheers,
> Tom
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> From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Lee Godfrey <lee using truthfromdata.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2018 1:53 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 binaries
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> The easiest way to compile RGtk2 is to use homebrew to install gtk+.
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> I tried to compile, received the same error as you, installed gtk+ and
> compiled successfully.
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> On 5/22/18 11:07 PM, Tom Elliott wrote: 
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Since R 3.4, the mac package binaries for RGtk2 have been unavailable. The install log from CRAN shows GTK cannot be found.
>> 
>> * installing *source* package 'RGtk2' ...
>> ** package 'RGtk2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
>> checking for GTK... no
>> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RGtk2'
>> * removing '/Volumes/SSD-Data/Builds/R-dev-web/QA/Simon/packages/el-capitan-x86_64/results/3.5/RGtk2.Rcheck/RGtk2'
>> 
>> Is there any possibility of this being fixed in the (near) future? We have a software package that depends on RGtk2 for the UI, so we are currently stuck forcing them to use R3.2 which is inevitably becoming obsolete as other packages we use require more up-to-date versions of R.
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>> Thanks,
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>> - Tom?
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