Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:
Dear list, I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.
Your subject line indicates your confusion. It does not say RGtk2.dll cannot be found (at least, the English version of the message does not say so). What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on cannot be found. See the instructions at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.
I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime environment for Windows (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe as described in the package's vignette, http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101227_win32.zip) I also included GTK in my Windows PATH. Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains that the RGtk2.dll can't be found/loaded (see below). But this file definitely exists. I'm running R-2.13.0 from a USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 'lib' are set propperly in 'install.packages'. Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2 Loading required package: gWidgets Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) : unable to load shared object 'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll': LoadLibrary failure: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it. Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed and that it is on your PATH environment variable IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details: call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE) error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package "RGtk2" Best regards, Janko R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] gWidgets_0.0-44 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-74 RGtk2_2.20.12 tools_2.13.0
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