Dear fellow R and Mac users,

I try to promote open source tools for practicals with my students, but I have 
some issues with the installation of Rattle (great GUI for data mining) on Mac 
OSX computers (10.6.3 | X11).
I'm trying to install it since last week without any success. I need it up and 
running in a short future that's why I request your help.

I followed the official installation procedure: 
http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Install_Macintosh.html1) Download and 
install GTK+ (25MB) from: http://r.research.att.com/gtk2-framework.dmg
2) Download and install GGobi (5MB) from: 
http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/ggobi-2.1.8.dmg
3) Installed R2.11(latest) | gfortran 4.2.3 | tcltk-8.5.5-x11 + updated all 
packages
4) install.packages("rattle", dependencies=c("Depends", "Suggests"))

When loading Rattle, it asked for a newer GTK so I installed (on my initiative) 
GTK+ 2.18.5 framework I found at: 
http://R.research.att.com/libs/GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg
Alright now I can load Rattle but it doesn't work at all, it keeps returning 
errors of two different kinds:
1) 
Tue May  4 08:43:24 COMPUTER.unil.ch R[379] <Error>: CGContextSetFont: invalid 
context 0x0
Tue May  4 08:43:24 COMPUTER.unil.ch R[379] <Error>: CGContextSetFontSize: 
invalid context 0x0
.......The list is much longer but always concerns CGContext something
2)  ( R:2190): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to        find default local directory 
monitor type( R:2190): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to   find default local directory 
monitor type

I addressed these to the developer but he's not a Mac user and has no idea of a 
workaround and suggested me to write this email.
Do someone have an idea to solve these issues or can someone try to install it 
and tell me the outcome? Any help, hint would be much appreciated so we can 
keep using Mac and open source applications at my university.
Kind Regards,
MorganUniversité de Lausanne




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