Dear Prof Brian Ripley and others, After (finally) checking again, I found that ggobi doesn't work with the newer GTK (probably needed for R 2.12.0).
Here is the results of my experimentations: *What works:* Installing ggobi and the GTK (version 2.12.9) provided on: http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/ Will *work* with R 2.11.1 + rggobi (version 2.1.14) (notice that the newest version 2.1.16, is not available for windows users. And the newer version 2.1.16-3 is not available on CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rggobi/index.html) *What doesn't work:* Trying this with R 2.12.0 with rggobi (version 2.1.16-3), will *crash* with the error: "the procedure entry point g_malloc_n could not be located in the dynamic link library libglic-2.0-0.dll" When then trying to install gtk+ from the dialog box offered, then it downloads GTK (version 2.22.0 instead of 2.12.9) from here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/gtk2-runtime-2.22.0-2010-10-21-ash.exe?download ' After doing this, ggobi (not rggobi) itself, won't run. It will crash with the error: "the procedure entry point g_assertion_message_error could not be located in the dynamic link library libglib-2.0-0.dll" Trying then to insert the dll's from the packages Prof Brian Ripley suggested (libxml2.dll and iconv.dll) won't fix the problem. Also using the libglib-2.0-0.dll from the old GTK package won't help. Also, reinstalling ggobi won't work. Any suggestions on how to make ggobi work with the newer version of GTK ? Thanks, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I checked it using: > > Sys.getenv("PATH") > > And the output includes the PATH to the GTK2 installation (it's the last > item in the following list): > > "C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program > Files (x86)\\Common Files\\Ulead Systems\\MPEG;C:\\Program > Files\\TortoiseGit\\bin;C:\\Program Files > (x86)\\QuickTime\\QTSystem\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ggobi;C:\\Program > Files (x86)\\GTK2-Runtime\\bin" > > > What else might I try? > > > (Thanks) > > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Prof Brian Ripley > <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > >> Your GTK+ installation is not being found: check your PATH. >> >> >> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Tal Galili wrote: >> >> Hello Prof Brian Ripley, Yihui and Tom, >>> >>> Thank you for your suggestions. It seemed to have made some differences >>> in >>> the error massages - but rggobi still fails to load. >>> >>> Steps taken: >>> 1) I removed the old GTK (through the uninstall interface) >>> 2) I ran library(RGtk2) which downloaded the new GTK-runtime >>> version 2.22.0-2010-10-21 (instead of the one I got from ggobi, which >>> was 2.12.9-2). >>> 3) I downloaded both >>> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/libxml2-2.7.7.win32.zip and >>> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/iconv-1.9.2.win32.zip >>> Unzipped them, and moved their dll's (from their bin directory), into - >>> C:\Program Files (x86)\GTK2-Runtime\bin >>> 4) I then tried starting rggobi: library(rggobi) and got the following >>> error massages: >>> >>> Error 1: >>> the program can't start because >>> libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll >>> is missing from your computer. >>> Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. >>> >>> It then tried to reinstall GTK, and after I refused to, it sent the >>> second >>> Error massage: >>> the program can't start because >>> libfreetype-6.dll >>> is missing from your computer. >>> Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> Any suggestions what else I should try? >>> >>> Many thanks for helping, >>> Tal >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----------------Contact >>> Details:------------------------------------------------------- >>> Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 >>> Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | >>> www.r-statistics.com (English) >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley < >>> rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> >>> wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Tom La Bone wrote: >>> >>> I recall that my problem on Windows was related to >>> having a number of stray >>> versions of GTK+ installed. I went back and deleted >>> all versions and >>> reinstalled the latest GTK+ and that seemed to fix >>> things. However, when I >>> went to do any work of substance ggobi locked up and >>> became unresponsive. >>> Never did get it working right on Windows. Had much >>> more luck with R/ggobi >>> on Ubuntu 10.10. >>> >>> >>> I've just been setting rggobi up for our classroom. It seems that on >>> Windows we now need to use Rgui in SDI mode to run rggobi without >>> lookups. (That was not the case last year, so it might be due to the >>> change in GTK+ version or it might be due to the change from XP to x64 >>> Windows 7 on those machines.) >>> >>> The rggobi binary on CRAN extras is statically linked against >>> everything except GTK+, but the www.ggobi.org ggobi DLL needs both >>> GTK+ DLLs and libxml2.dll (which needs iconv.dll and zlib1.dll). Late >>> last year there was a problem in that GTK+ and libxml2.dll needed >>> different zlib1.dll's, but AFAICS this is now resolved by using >>> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/libxml2-2.7.7.win32.zip and >>> ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/iconv-1.9.2.win32.zip. (Unpack those >>> and drop the DLLs into somewhere on your path, e.g. the GTK+ bin >>> directory.) >>> >>> We've had a lot of trouble over zlib1.dll: those prepared from zLib >>> 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 are incompatible. The whole point of the '1' in the >>> name is to change the name in that case! I suspect very few of those >>> benefitting from Windows binary packages have any idea how much work >>> goes into circumventing such issues. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >>> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >>> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
