Error on start-up Library not loaded

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David Winsemius

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Nov 19, 2008, 9:09:44 PM11/19/08
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Dear GGobites;

Never before user of GGobi. Do have R installed and running the
universal version from Urbanek's site at AT&T. (Thank you Simon.)

Running OS X 10.5.5 on Wintel Qaudcore machine

Following instructions on http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/
I downloaded and installed Gtk2 with nor reports of errors

Trying to start by double-clicking GGobi.app in the applications
folder launches anX11 window with a bash prompt and then a GGobi
window which spins a gear for a long while (I was patient) and then
reports in the GGobi window:

26:34: execution error: X11 got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
(-1712)
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/ggobi/bin/ggobi
Reason: image not found

Suggestions?

Incidentally there is a malformed link on the http://www.ggobi.org/docs/
page. Under Get Started the step #1 link labeled "Download" is missing
an "s" in .../downloads/
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David Winsemius

hadley wickham

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Nov 21, 2008, 8:48:40 PM11/21/08
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Hi David,

This is a conflict between the distribution version of GGobi and
Simon's new Gtk2 installer. I need to rebuild GGobi so it's
compatible (and compatible with R 2.8). I'm hoping I'll have a chance
to do it over thanksgiving.

Regards,

Hadley
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David Winsemius

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Nov 22, 2008, 2:06:03 PM11/22/08
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Thank you;

David

Ivan Alves

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Jan 6, 2009, 9:45:08 AM1/6/09
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Hi Hadley,

I just tried the same and the long waiting pause and the AppleEvent
timing out are still there. Any chance you got GGobi compiled?

kind regards,
Ivan

On Nov 22 2008, 8:06 pm, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> Thank you;
>
> David
>
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 8:48 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi David,
>
> > This is a conflict between the distribution version of GGobi and
> > Simon's new Gtk2 installer.  I need to rebuild GGobi so it's
> > compatible (and compatible with R 2.8).  I'm hoping I'll have a chance
> > to do it over thanksgiving.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Hadley
>
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:09 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net
> > > wrote:
>
> >> Dear GGobites;
>
> >> Never before user of GGobi. Do have R installed and running the
> >> universal version from Urbanek's site at AT&T. (Thank you Simon.)
>
> >> Running OS X 10.5.5 on Wintel Qaudcore machine
>
> >> Following instructions onhttp://www.ggobi.org/downloads/
> >> I downloaded and installed Gtk2 with nor reports of errors
>
> >> Trying to start by double-clicking GGobi.app in the applications
> >> folder launches anX11 window with a bash prompt and then a GGobi
> >> window which spins a gear for a long while (I was patient)  and then
> >> reports in the GGobi window:
>
> >> 26:34: execution error: X11 got an error: AppleEvent timed out.
> >> (-1712)
> >> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib
> >> Referenced from: /usr/local/ggobi/bin/ggobi
> >> Reason: image not found
>
> >> Suggestions?
>
> >> Incidentally there is a malformed link on thehttp://www.ggobi.org/docs/

hadley wickham

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Jan 6, 2009, 9:47:35 AM1/6/09
to Ivan Alves, GGobi users
I'm working a few last issues through with the mac R maintainer (Simon
Urbanek) and then we should be good to go.

Hadley
--
http://had.co.nz/

Bob Pap

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Jan 6, 2009, 3:40:32 PM1/6/09
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Dear Hadley,
Please note that installing the Tcl/Tk for X11 package from CRAN
solved the problem. It works nicely now (the guidance could point out
to this if it turns out this was the show stopper).
Kind regards,
Ivan

Liz

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Jan 14, 2009, 6:55:38 PM1/14/09
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Hello -

Can you tell me if this is what is included in the R pkg at CRAN or
something separate? I downloaded and installed the full R and I am
still having the same issue as the person above with timeout and image
not found error. I did it all today ...

Thanks,
Liz


On Jan 6, 2:40 pm, Bob Pap <bob...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Hadley,
> Please note that installing the Tcl/Tk for X11 package from CRAN
> solved the problem. It works nicely now (the guidance could point out
> to this if it turns out this was the show stopper).
> Kind regards,
> Ivan

Michael Lawrence

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Jan 14, 2009, 7:10:57 PM1/14/09
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The tcltk package should not be a dependency of rggobi. It would be great if someone with a Mac could figure out what is going on here.

Prior to R 2.8, RGtk2 and rggobi used a tcltk feature that was part of R itself. As of R 2.8, only tcltk is allowed to use that feature.

Liz

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Jan 14, 2009, 8:41:47 PM1/14/09
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Thanks for the reply - this is the first time I am attempting to use
any of this software, and it is for a graduate school class. We
started out using ILOG and now that one is not available, so this was
plan B.

The one thing I noticed right away was that the library that is being
looked for in the launch of GGobi is /usr/local/lib/libgtk-
x11-2.0.0.dylib, but that was not installed with the gtk set. There
are similarly named files
libgthread-2.0.0.1800.1.dylib and libgtk-x11-2.0.0.1400.3.dylib.

Is the missing feature that can no longer be accessed or is this a
different issue altogether?

Thanks,
Liz

On Jan 14, 6:10 pm, "Michael Lawrence" <mflaw...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> The tcltk package should not be a dependency of rggobi. It would be great if
> someone with a Mac could figure out what is going on here.
>
> Prior to R 2.8, RGtk2 and rggobi used a tcltk feature that was part of R
> itself. As of R 2.8, only tcltk is allowed to use that feature.
>

Michael Lawrence

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Jan 14, 2009, 10:55:54 PM1/14/09
to Liz, GGobi users
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Liz <lizba...@mac.com> wrote:

Thanks for the reply - this is the first time I am attempting to use
any of this software, and it is for a graduate school class.  We
started out using ILOG and now that one is not available, so this was
plan B.

The one thing I noticed right away was that the library that is being
looked for in the launch of GGobi is /usr/local/lib/libgtk-
x11-2.0.0.dylib, but that was not installed with the gtk set.  There
are similarly named files
libgthread-2.0.0.1800.1.dylib and libgtk-x11-2.0.0.1400.3.dylib.

Is the missing feature that can no longer be accessed or is this a
different issue altogether?

This sounds like a compatibility problem between the RGtk2 and/or rggobi package binaries and the GTK+ binaries. I'm pretty sure Hadley and Simon are working on it.
 

hadley wickham

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Jan 15, 2009, 8:12:43 AM1/15/09
to Michael Lawrence, Liz, GGobi users
>> Is the missing feature that can no longer be accessed or is this a
>> different issue altogether?
>
> This sounds like a compatibility problem between the RGtk2 and/or rggobi
> package binaries and the GTK+ binaries. I'm pretty sure Hadley and Simon are
> working on it.

Yes, we are! I'm hoping it should be resolved very soon.

Hadley


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