Hi all, the cairoDevice package is not available as a binary on CRAN right now. I tried to compile it from source, which renders the following: mark-heckmanns-macbook:~ markheckmann$ R CMD INSTALL cairoDevice_2.10.tar.gz * installing to library ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ library? * installing *source* package ?cairoDevice? ... checking for pkg-config... pkg-config ERROR: gtk+2.0 not found by pkg-config. ERROR: configuration failed for package ?cairoDevice? * removing ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ cairoDevice? 1) Is there a manual way to fix this as GTK+2.0 is installed? 2) Will there be a fix in the future? TIA Mark ??????????????????????????????????????? Mark Heckmann Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. cand. Psych. Vorstra?e 93 B01 28359 Bremen Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com
cairoDevice package on mac os install failure
2 messages · Mark Heckmann, Simon Urbanek
On Dec 20, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
Hi all, the cairoDevice package is not available as a binary on CRAN right now. I tried to compile it from source, which renders the following: mark-heckmanns-macbook:~ markheckmann$ R CMD INSTALL cairoDevice_2.10.tar.gz * installing to library ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library? * installing *source* package ?cairoDevice? ... checking for pkg-config... pkg-config ERROR: gtk+2.0 not found by pkg-config. ERROR: configuration failed for package ?cairoDevice? * removing ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/cairoDevice? 1) Is there a manual way to fix this as GTK+2.0 is installed?
The "manual way" is to set your environment properly. How, that's entirely up to you and your GTK+ -- for example if you are using the CRAN version of GTK+ framework you have to add /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Resources/bin to your PATH.
2) Will there be a fix in the future?
Not on our end, it's hard to fix users ;). If you want to compile packages from sources, you'll have to make sure you have all requirements in place - that's your responsibility. (BTW cairoDevice is not on CRAN in binary form because it doesn't pass check so even the above may not work -- but in that case you should really ask the RGtk2 maintainer ...). Cheers, Simon