[R-SIG-Mac] arm downloads appear broken

[Keith Bierman]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 1:09 AM Prof Brian Ripley <ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Your subject line is alarmist -- you only provide any evidence for 1 out
> of > 19000 CRAN packages (and not R itself).
>

As my goal was to coax a local Expeditionary HS Science teacher to use
Rattle , it was the only fraction of the suite which was germane. I thought
the title would be taken as a humorous nod to the classic *goto* paper. I'm
sorry it was found to be in suboptimal taste.


> Package RGtk2 was archived in 2021.  The current rattle (5.5.1) does not
> depend on it.


Is https://rattle.togaware.com/rattle-install-mac.html not the right place
to look? It had been a few years, but Togaware used to be the right
starting point. Also searching for installing Rattle on Mac
(unsurprisingly) delivered a ton of hits, many obviously stale, but some
not so obviously so. But pkg, devel, brew ... I am observing the same
behavior (errant environment variable?)

Step 0 Downloaded R https://cran.r-project.org

There were many different attempts at step 1, the seemingly most obvious
one from togaware has instructions from 2018, so I wasn't terribly
surprised that it failed. I was surprised at the *way* it failed

Step 1 install.packages('rattle')  # picked the TX mirror, as they are
physically reasonably close.
Even trying again with the  install.packages("
https://access.togaware.com/RGtk2_2.20.36.2.tgz", repos=NULL) before the
rattle install, it is offering to install GTK+, and installs the wrong one.

The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/n8/92rd9hwj0jq_ly7_nv2rktlw0000gn/T//RtmpZghlVY/downloaded_packages
> library(rattle)
Loading required package: tibble
Loading required package: bitops
Rattle: A free graphical interface for data science with R.

*Version 5.5.1 Copyright (c) 2006-2021 Togaware Pty Ltd.*Type 'rattle()' to
shake, rattle, and roll your data.
> rattle()

*Loading required package: RGtk2*Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath,
...) :

So, this claims to be 5.5.1, but it does insist on RGtk2, and I'm getting
the wrong RGtk2. Obviously there must be something in my environment that
differs from yours, or the TN repository is somehow wrong..

quit R.app, and restarting...
trying your ac.at site:
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> install.packages('
https://cran.wu.ac.at/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/rattle_5.5.1.tgz
')
inferring 'repos = NULL' from 'pkgs'
trying URL '
https://cran.wu.ac.at/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/rattle_5.5.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6389382 bytes (6.1 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 6.1 MB

>
> library(rattle)
Loading required package: tibble
Loading required package: bitops
Rattle: A free graphical interface for data science with R.
Version 5.5.1 Copyright (c) 2006-2021 Togaware Pty Ltd.
Type 'rattle()' to shake, rattle, and roll your data.
> rattle()
Loading required package: RGtk2
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)

>
> For me just now R 4.2.2 successfully downloaded
>
> trying URL
> '
> https://cran.wu.ac.at/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/rattle_5.5.1.tgz
> '
>
> LMK if there are any particular logs that might help distinguish what I
experience vs what you are. While I've missed the chance to twist his arm
for today's experiment, I would like to be able to coax him (and his
colleague in Maths) to go beyond the Google Sheets and Excel that has
become their norm.

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