New to Rattle, install trouble with R 3.1.0

[jess....@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm new to Rattle.  Thanks in advance for going easy on me.

I'm trying to install Rattle in R 3.1.0 (Mac, 10.9.2), following the install instructions here: http://rattle.togaware.com/rattle-install-mac.html

And I get this message:

> install.packages("RGtk2")

--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---

   package ‘RGtk2’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning message:

package ‘RGtk2’ is not available (for R version 3.1.0) 

> 

Is Rattle not compatible with this new version of R (released 4-10-14)?  Or am I doing it wrong?

Thanks again.

Best,

Jessica

[steven...@saama.com]

Just checking to see if anyone answered your question - I am having the same problem!

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[Graham Williams]

I wonder if the solution is to attempt to install from source - it looks like a binary package for RGtk2 has not been made available for this version of R yet?

> install.packages("RGtk2", type="source")

Regards,
Graham

[Linda]

Hello, and thank you! Also in the same boat (R 3.1.0, under Mac 10.9.2, with GTK_2.24.17-X11.pkg installed from http://r.research.att.com/ , and install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com", type="source”)  ).

I got the same problem; from source also did not quite work:

> install.packages("RGtk2", type="source")

trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.29.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2785355 bytes (2.7 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 2.7 Mb

* installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
** package ‘RGtk2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for INTROSPECTION... no
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RGtk2’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RGtk2’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/gv/dsf22lls2yj8tzwcgnp4yr7w0000gn/T/RtmpQLoLph/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("RGtk2", type = "source") :
  installation of package ‘RGtk2’ had non-zero exit status
>

The GTK installer did produce /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework but apparently R doesn't see it... Is there just something I need to do to let R know the GTK framework is there?

(Or is it necessary to install GTK by using macports as described on the GitHub link, instead?)

Thanks again,
Linda

[LP]

Jessica and Steven,

For what it's worth: I was getting the same error as you, but just got Rattle working for the first time, by changing these steps:
1. Using the R-3.1.0-snowleopard.pkg from CRAN and not the R-3.1.0-mavericks.pkg (even though I am running Mavericks X 10.9.3)
2. Installing and running everything through RStudio's interface to R: http://www.rstudio.com/

I did also use:

install.packages("RGtk2", type="source")

install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com", type="source")

Thanks and good luck,
LP

On Friday, April 25, 2014 1:36:04 PM UTC-7, jess....@gmail.com wrote:

[Nilkamal Weerasinghe]

The answer you are looking for is given below for the R 3.1.0 and OSX 10.9.2 combo.

http://marcoghislanzoni.com/blog/2014/08/29/solved-installing-rattle-r-3-1-mac-os-x-10-9/