Well... Assuming all your users are on the same platform (OS), why not compile and distribute a zip of the binaries?
On 2018-08-22 06:00, r-sig-mac-request at r-project.org wrote:
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https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to r-sig-mac-request at r-project.org You can reach the person managing the list at r-sig-mac-owner at r-project.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: RGtk2 binaries (Tom Elliott) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:31:36 +0000 From: Tom Elliott <tom.elliott at auckland.ac.nz> To: "r-sig-mac at r-project.org" <r-sig-mac at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 binaries Message-ID: <1534908696856.49406 at auckland.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, No luck exploring other avenues to find a solution - asking users (mostly students, computer novices) to install homebrew in order to install gtk+ isn't a viable option. Does anyone (Simon?) know if anything will be done on the CRAN side to compile and provide binaries for RGtk2 (and a handful of other packages)? Cheers, Tom ________________________________________ From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of Lee Godfrey <lee at truthfromdata.com> Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2018 1:53 a.m. To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 binaries The easiest way to compile RGtk2 is to use homebrew to install gtk+. I tried to compile, received the same error as you, installed gtk+ and compiled successfully. On 5/22/18 11:07 PM, Tom Elliott wrote: Hi all, Since R 3.4, the mac package binaries for RGtk2 have been unavailable. The install log from CRAN shows GTK cannot be found. * installing *source* package 'RGtk2' ... ** package 'RGtk2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for INTROSPECTION... no checking for GTK... no configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RGtk2' * removing '/Volumes/SSD-Data/Builds/R-dev-web/QA/Simon/packages/el-capitan-x86_64/results/3.5/RGtk2.Rcheck/RGtk2' Is there any possibility of this being fixed in the (near) future? We have a software package that depends on RGtk2 for the UI, so we are currently stuck forcing them to use R3.2 which is inevitably becoming obsolete as other packages we use require more up-to-date versions of R. Thanks, - Tom? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac ------------------------------ End of R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 185, Issue 6 *****************************************