Well... Assuming all your users are on the same platform (OS), why not compile and distribute a zip of the binaries?
On 2018-08-22 06:00, r-sig-mac-requ...@r-project.org wrote: > Send R-SIG-Mac mailing list submissions to > r-sig-mac@r-project.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > r-sig-mac-requ...@r-project.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > r-sig-mac-ow...@r-project.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: RGtk2 binaries (Tom Elliott) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:31:36 +0000 > From: Tom Elliott <tom.elli...@auckland.ac.nz> > To: "r-sig-mac@r-project.org" <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 binaries > Message-ID: <1534908696856.49...@auckland.ac.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > No luck exploring other avenues to find a solution - asking users (mostly > students, computer novices) to install homebrew in order to install gtk+ > isn't a viable option. > > Does anyone (Simon?) know if anything will be done on the CRAN side to > compile and provide binaries for RGtk2 (and a handful of other packages)? > > Cheers, > Tom > > ________________________________________ > From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Lee Godfrey > <l...@truthfromdata.com> > Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2018 1:53 a.m. > To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 binaries > > The easiest way to compile RGtk2 is to use homebrew to install gtk+. > > I tried to compile, received the same error as you, installed gtk+ and > compiled successfully. > > On 5/22/18 11:07 PM, Tom Elliott wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Since R 3.4, the mac package binaries for RGtk2 have been unavailable. The >> install log from CRAN shows GTK cannot be found. >> >> * installing *source* package 'RGtk2' ... >> ** package 'RGtk2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config >> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes >> checking for INTROSPECTION... no >> checking for GTK... no >> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required >> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RGtk2' >> * removing >> '/Volumes/SSD-Data/Builds/R-dev-web/QA/Simon/packages/el-capitan-x86_64/results/3.5/RGtk2.Rcheck/RGtk2' >> >> Is there any possibility of this being fixed in the (near) future? We have a >> software package that depends on RGtk2 for the UI, so we are currently stuck >> forcing them to use R3.2 which is inevitably becoming obsolete as other >> packages we use require more up-to-date versions of R. >> >> Thanks, >> >> - Tom? >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > ------------------------------ > > End of R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 185, Issue 6 > ***************************************** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
