On Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:12:08 AM UTC-7, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > > As a few people have noticed rattle does not run on R on Lion. The reason > is that it needs a newer version of gtk > than the one we have thanks to Simon (downloadable from the att R site). > I have read in quite a few different places that building gtk on the Mac is > messy. > Nevertheless, I tried, and I have been able to build a version in Lion > which allows > to build everything and tin the gtk-demo included in the source package. > I have to overcome two bugs in the distribution. > This new version lives in ~/gtk/inst and the contents are very similar to > Simon's > /Library/Frameworks/GTK+.framework/Versions/2.18.X11/Resources > I am not experienced in developing on OSX, so I am not able to build > an installable pkg file which would install this version of gtk as a > replacement > of Simon's current version. > Perhaps somebody experienced in creating Mac packages is willing to start > where I had to stop and create such a package. > I think that some other readers of this mailing list even might be as eager > as I to learn > how this can be done in an email short course over the list ;-) > > I also do not know if we need to recompile RGtk2 (and possible more > packages) >
A package manager could help with this. For example, install Homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew Install GFortran and R: brew install gfortran brew install R You might be able to skip this step and use the R binaries from CRAN---the only caveat I can think of is that Homebrew doesn't build a Universal GTK+ (it gives you x86_64) and CRAN R might want to build both i386 and x86_64 versions of packages. Install GTK+: brew install gtk+ Run R and install rattle: install.packages('rattle') Hope this helps! -Charlie
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