[R] Follow up on installing formatR...

[Brian Lunergan]

Good morning folks:

Made a second go at installing this and succeeded, but with some strange
behaviours along the way. First the system back story.

Using up to date edition Ubuntu 8.04

Using up to date edition of R 2.10.1

Using the Toronto, Ontario repository to draw from.

After the first attempt ended up with two of the four dependencies
installed so only the Rgtk related items would be needed this time. Went
into synaptic and found r-cran-rgtk2. Okay. Sounded likely so I installed
it successfully. Using a root terminal session I went back into R and ran
install.packages("formatR"). Pulled in two dependencies plus the main
choice. Rejected one and kept two when it came time to install but still
installed successfully, or so it seemed when I ran library(formatR). Go
figure. A copy of the message run follows. Any comments or suggestions will
be of interest.

> install.packages("formatR")
Warning in install.packages("formatR") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
also installing the dependencies ‘RGtk2’, ‘gWidgetsRGtk2’

trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.12.18.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2206504 bytes (2.1 Mb)
opened URL
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downloaded 2.1 Mb

trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-64.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 138192 bytes (134 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 134 Kb

trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/src/contrib/formatR_0.1-3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2672 bytes
opened URL
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downloaded 2672 bytes

* installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for LIBGLADE... no
configure: WARNING: libglade not found
checking for INTROSPECTION... no
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RGtk2’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RGtk2’
* installing *source* package ‘gWidgetsRGtk2’ ...
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
* DONE (gWidgetsRGtk2)
* installing *source* package ‘formatR’ ...
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: gWidgets
Loading required package: MASS
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
* DONE (formatR)

The downloaded packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpNL20Be/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("formatR") :
  installation of package 'RGtk2' had non-zero exit status
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-- 
Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada