[R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ support (or rather lack thereof)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 04/04/2020 05:15, Tom Elliott wrote:
> Simon,
> 
>> Hence this is a call to the R community to see if anyone actually cares.
> I (and Chris Wild and quite a few of our mac users) care and would greatly appreciate working GTK+ CRAN packages!
> 
> I don't have any knowledge re source etc, but just to remind you that the current RGtk2 package on CRAN for 3.3 doesn't work (or at least wasn't when I last tried):
> 
> library(RGtk2)
> gtkHScaleNewWithRange(0, 5, 1)  # segfault

Did you really mean '3.3'?  If so, R versions that old are long unsupported.

FWIW, your example worked for me with 4.0.0 alpha and RGtk2 built from 
source against Simon's (old) build of GTK+ 2.24.17.  Have you tried 
that?   RGtk2 and some of the packages using it pass their checks but 
some (e.g. gWidgets2RGtk2 and a few of those using it including MixSIAR, 
Ricetl, fit4NM, plfMA) segfault.  And this has been the case for several 
years.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford