I finally managed to get this done. I went to the contributed packages for version 2.14 Windows 32 bit and downloaded the zip file. This got installed smoothly in R 2.15. Don't know why I did not try this before. Regards, Indrajit
________________________________ From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> To: Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com>; r-help <r-help@r-project.org> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [R] Unable to compile & install rggobi On 28/04/2012 04:33, Michael Lawrence wrote: > GGobi needs a 64 bit binary before we can get rggobi available on Windows > again. Only true for 64-bit R on Windows, which is nowadays the primary Windows version. But that does not apply to the on-extended-support Windows XP which is 32-bit only. It does build on 32-bit Windows, and my advice was accurate and complete. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Indrajit Sengupta > >> I came across this web site: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/check/ >> >> Where I checked the file: rggobi-check.log >> >> The contents of this file is giving the same kind of error that I am >> facing. Does that mean, this package does not work with R 2.15 yet? Is it a >> bug? >> >> Regards, >> Indrajit >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Prof Brian Ripley<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> >> >> Cc: R Help<r-help@r-project.org> >> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 2:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [R] Unable to compile& install rggobi >> >> On 27/04/2012 08:56, Indrajit Sengupta wrote: >>> I am currently using R 2.15.0 with R Tools 2.15 (in Windows XP). I >> downloaded the source for RGgobi and extracted it to a folder. >>> >>> Then I tried compiling and installing with the following command and got >> an error message: >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> D:\Work\tmp>R CMD INSTALL --build "D:\\DPF\\Rggobi\\rggobi" >>> * installing to library 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.0/library' >>> * installing *source* package 'rggobi' ... >>> ** libs >>> cygwin warning: >>> MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf >>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: >> /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf >>> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >> warning. >>> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >>> gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -D_R_=1 -DUSE_R=1 >> -mms-bitfields -I/include/gtk-2.0 -I/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >> -I/../lib/gtk-2.0/include - >>> I/include/atk-1.0 -I/include/cairo -I/include/pango-1.0 >> -I/include/glib-2.0 -I/../lib/glib-2.0/include -I/include/libxml2 >> -I/include -I/include/ggobi -IC:/ >>> PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.0/include -I/include/libxml -O3 -Wall >> -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c RSEval.c -o RSEval.o >>> In file included from RSEval.c:6:0: >>> RSGGobi.h:5:22: fatal error: GGobiAPI.h: No such file or directory >>> compilation terminated. >>> make: *** [RSEval.o] Error 1 >>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rggobi' >>> * removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.0/library/rggobi' >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Can anybody help in figuring out what is the problem? I have installed >> GGobi& RGtk2 previously. >> >> You need to set some environment variables: study the rggobi sources for >> what. E.g. I bet GGobi is not installed in the root, so -I/include/ggobi >> will not work. >> >>> Regards, >>> Indrajit >>> [[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. >> >> Please do as you were asked: no HTML, programming questions to R-devel, >> questions about packages to the maintainer .... >> >> -- >> 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 >> [[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. >> >> > > [[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. -- Brian D. 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