Hello Prof Brian Ripley, Yihui and Tom, Thank you for your suggestions. It seemed to have made some differences in the error massages - but rggobi still fails to load.
Steps taken: 1) I removed the old GTK (through the uninstall interface) 2) I ran library(RGtk2) which downloaded the new GTK-runtime version 2.22.0-2010-10-21 (instead of the one I got from ggobi, which was 2.12.9-2). 3) I downloaded both ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/libxml2-2.7.7.win32.zip and ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/iconv-1.9.2.win32.zip Unzipped them, and moved their dll's (from their bin directory), into - C:\Program Files (x86)\GTK2-Runtime\bin 4) I then tried starting rggobi: library(rggobi) and got the following error massages: Error 1: the program can't start because libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. It then tried to reinstall GTK, and after I refused to, it sent the second Error massage: the program can't start because libfreetype-6.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. Any suggestions what else I should try? Many thanks for helping, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Tom La Bone wrote: > > I recall that my problem on Windows was related to having a number of >> stray >> versions of GTK+ installed. I went back and deleted all versions and >> reinstalled the latest GTK+ and that seemed to fix things. However, when I >> went to do any work of substance ggobi locked up and became unresponsive. >> Never did get it working right on Windows. Had much more luck with R/ggobi >> on Ubuntu 10.10. >> > > I've just been setting rggobi up for our classroom. It seems that on > Windows we now need to use Rgui in SDI mode to run rggobi without lookups. > (That was not the case last year, so it might be due to the change in GTK+ > version or it might be due to the change from XP to x64 Windows 7 on those > machines.) > > The rggobi binary on CRAN extras is statically linked against everything > except GTK+, but the www.ggobi.org ggobi DLL needs both GTK+ DLLs and > libxml2.dll (which needs iconv.dll and zlib1.dll). Late last year there was > a problem in that GTK+ and libxml2.dll needed different zlib1.dll's, but > AFAICS this is now resolved by using > ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/libxml2-2.7.7.win32.zip and > ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/iconv-1.9.2.win32.zip. (Unpack those and > drop the DLLs into somewhere on your path, e.g. the GTK+ bin directory.) > > We've had a lot of trouble over zlib1.dll: those prepared from zLib 1.2.3 > and 1.2.5 are incompatible. The whole point of the '1' in the name is to > change the name in that case! I suspect very few of those benefitting from > Windows binary packages have any idea how much work goes into circumventing > such issues. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
