Hi Tal, Thanks for working through this. GGobi needs to be rebuilt for the new version of GTK+. I'm probably the person to do that, but my time is short these days. I'll try to get to it soon. The new binary will just include the necessary DLLs, so that this GTK+ installation step is unnecessary.
Michael On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Prof Brian Ripley and others, > > After (finally) checking again, I found that ggobi doesn't work with the > newer GTK (probably needed for R 2.12.0). > > Here is the results of my experimentations: > > > *What works:* > Installing ggobi and the GTK (version 2.12.9) provided on: > http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/ > Will *work* with R 2.11.1 + rggobi (version 2.1.14) > (notice that the newest version 2.1.16, is not available for windows users. > And the newer version 2.1.16-3 is not available on CRAN: > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rggobi/index.html) > > > *What doesn't work:* > Trying this with R 2.12.0 with rggobi (version 2.1.16-3), will *crash* with > the error: > > "the procedure entry point g_malloc_n could not be located in the > dynamic link library libglic-2.0-0.dll" > > > When then trying to install gtk+ from the dialog box offered, then it > downloads GTK (version 2.22.0 instead of 2.12.9) from here: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/gtk2-runtime-2.22.0-2010-10-21-ash.exe?download > ' > > After doing this, ggobi (not rggobi) itself, won't run. It will crash with > the error: > > "the procedure entry point g_assertion_message_error could not be located > in > the > dynamic link library libglib-2.0-0.dll" > > > Trying then to insert the dll's from the packages Prof Brian Ripley > suggested (libxml2.dll and iconv.dll) won't fix the problem. > Also using the libglib-2.0-0.dll from the old GTK package won't help. > Also, reinstalling ggobi won't work. > > > > Any suggestions on how to make ggobi work with the newer version of GTK ? > > Thanks, > 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 4:50 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I checked it using: > > > > Sys.getenv("PATH") > > > > And the output includes the PATH to the GTK2 installation (it's the last > > item in the following list): > > > > > "C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program > > Files (x86)\\Common Files\\Ulead Systems\\MPEG;C:\\Program > > Files\\TortoiseGit\\bin;C:\\Program Files > > (x86)\\QuickTime\\QTSystem\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ggobi;C:\\Program > > Files (x86)\\GTK2-Runtime\\bin" > > > > > > What else might I try? > > > > > > (Thanks) > > > > > > ----------------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 4:23 PM, Prof Brian Ripley < > rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > > > >> Your GTK+ installation is not being found: check your PATH. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Tal Galili wrote: > >> > >> 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/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> Brian D. 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