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The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.

7 messages · Liviu Andronic, Kingsley G. Morse Jr., Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
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Hello,

I'm looking forward to mining some new data six
ways from Sunday with a great looking R
application named "rattle".

May I please have the benefit of this list's
informed thoughts on how to debug an installation
error?

On Debian Linux's unstable release, I've done

    root$ aptitude install r-cran-rattle
    root$ aptitude install r-cran-rgtk2
    user$ R
    > library(rattle)
    > rattle()

but when I try to run rattle, I get

    Error in rattle() : 
      The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.
    In addition: Warning message:
    In infoDialog(sprintf(Rtxt("The package '%s' is required to %s.",  :
      The package 'colorspace' is required to choose appropriate colors for plots. It does not appear to be installed. Please consider installing it, perhaps with the following R command: 

    install.packages('colorspace') 

    to use the full functionality of Rattle.

Does anyone here happen to know how to install
libglade on Debian Linux?

Thanks,
Kingsley
Liviu Andronic
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
<kingsley at loaner.com> wrote:
Open Synaptic, search for libglade and install libglade2-0. But I'm
surprised that the .debs do not take care automatically of such a dep.
Regards
Liviu

  
    
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
    

    

      
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Hi Liviu,

I appreciate how quickly your replied.

I installed libglade2-0.

Unfortunately, R still reports the same error.

Cheers,
~K

        
On 01/16/11 09:44, Liviu Andronic wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            
  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr.

        
<kingsley at loaner.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I'm not sure what's wrong. Can you report sessionInfo()? Have you
tried update.packages(checkBuilt=T, ask=F)? (Check the man page before
attempting this command.) A quick search on Rseek showed something
relevant in the rattle Changelog [1]; it might make sense to contact
the maintainer.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rattle/ChangeLog

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            
        

  
    
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 01/16/11 10:26, Liviu Andronic wrote:

        
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Yes.

It is 

    > sessionInfo()
    R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
    Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

    locale:
     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_US       
     [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US     LC_MONETARY=C        LC_MESSAGES=en_US   
     [7] LC_PAPER=en_US       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C        
    [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 

    attached base packages:
    [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

    other attached packages:
    [1] rattle_2.5.32 pmml_1.2.22   XML_3.2-0

            

      
      
      
    

        
I have not, if only because many of my R packages
were installed outside of R with Debian's command
line tool named "aptitude", and I'd like to avoid
incompatibilities from using a second package
manager.

Thanks,
Kingsley

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            
  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 16 January 2011 at 01:37, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

        
| On 01/16/11 10:26, Liviu Andronic wrote:

        
| [...]
| > Can you report sessionInfo()? 
| 
| Yes.
| 
| It is 
| 
|     > sessionInfo()
|     R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
|     Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
| 
|     locale:
|      [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_US       
|      [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US     LC_MONETARY=C        LC_MESSAGES=en_US   
|      [7] LC_PAPER=en_US       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C        
|     [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 
| 
|     attached base packages:
|     [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
| 
|     other attached packages:
|     [1] rattle_2.5.32 pmml_1.2.22   XML_3.2-0    
| 
| 
| > Have you tried update.packages(checkBuilt=T,
| > ask=F)? 
| 
| I have not, if only because many of my R packages
| were installed outside of R with Debian's command
| line tool named "aptitude", and I'd like to avoid
| incompatibilities from using a second package
| manager.

It's complicated. This was discussed on this list (and elsewhere) many, many
times.

I think many folks like the compromise of
  
  /usr/lib/R/site-library		for packages installed as .deb files

  /usr/local/lib/R/site-library		for packages installed via R

That is a clean separation and it has been enforced since 2003 or so when we
started to set R_LIBS.  

Dirk
  
| 
| Thanks,
| Kingsley
| 
| > A quick search on Rseek showed something
| > relevant in the rattle Changelog [1]; it might
| > make sense to contact the maintainer.
| > 
| > Regards
| > Liviu
| > 
| > [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rattle/ChangeLog
| > 
| > 
| > > Cheers,
| > > ~K
| > >

        
| > > On 01/16/11 09:44, Liviu Andronic wrote:

        
| > >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr.

        
| > >> <kingsley at loaner.com> wrote:

        
| > >> > Hello,
| > >> >
| > >> > I'm looking forward to mining some new data six
| > >> > ways from Sunday with a great looking R
| > >> > application named "rattle".
| > >> >
| > >> > May I please have the benefit of this list's
| > >> > informed thoughts on how to debug an installation
| > >> > error?
| > >> >
| > >> > On Debian Linux's unstable release, I've done
| > >> >
| > >> > ? ?root$ aptitude install r-cran-rattle
| > >> > ? ?root$ aptitude install r-cran-rgtk2
| > >> > ? ?user$ R
| > >> > ? ?> library(rattle)
| > >> > ? ?> rattle()
| > >> >
| > >> > but when I try to run rattle, I get
| > >> >
| > >> > ? ?Error in rattle() :
| > >> > ? ? ?The RGtk2 package did not find libglade installed. Please install it.
| > >> > ? ?In addition: Warning message:
| > >> > ? ?In infoDialog(sprintf(Rtxt("The package '%s' is required to %s.", ?:
| > >> > ? ? ?The package 'colorspace' is required to choose appropriate colors for plots. It does not appear to be installed. Please consider installing it, perhaps with the following R command:
| > >> >
| > >> > ? ?install.packages('colorspace')
| > >> >
| > >> > ? ?to use the full functionality of Rattle.
| > >> >
| > >> > Does anyone here happen to know how to install
| > >> > libglade on Debian Linux?
| > >> >
| > >> Open Synaptic, search for libglade and install libglade2-0. But I'm
| > >> surprised that the .debs do not take care automatically of such a dep.
| > >> Regards
| > >> Liviu
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> > Thanks,
| > >> > Kingsley
| > >> >
| > >> > _______________________________________________
| > >> > R-SIG-Debian mailing list
| > >> > R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
| > >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
| > >> >
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> --
| > >> Do you know how to read?
| > >> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
| > >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
| > >> Do you know how to write?
| > >> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
| > >
| > >
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > -- 
| > Do you know how to read?
| > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
| > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
| > Do you know how to write?
| > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
| 
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      Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
    

    

      
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On 01/16/11 10:26, Liviu Andronic wrote:

        
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For once, you're right again.

;-)

rattle's maintainer gave me updated instructions for
installing it.

All the best,
~K