Hi Brian, I have never tried Rattle but I did a quick search and found this link which might give some clues.
https://book.huihoo.com/data-mining-desktop-survival-guide/Installing_GTK.html Good luck, Eric On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Brian Lunergan <ff...@ncf.ca> wrote: > > Evening folks: > > Hope I'm in the right place to ask this. > > Running R 4.1.2 on Linux Mint 19.3. I do have R Commander and R Studio > in place and working, so I'm not without choices for a GUI to use R. > However, I wanted to try out the Rattle interface. > > The package installs OK, but it apparently needs the RGtk2 package to > run its graphic state. When I try to install that package I get the > following: > > > install.packages("RGtk2") > Installing package into ‘/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.36.2.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2792234 bytes (2.7 MB) > ================================================== > downloaded 2.7 MB > > * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ... > ** package ‘RGtk2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > ** using staged installation > checking for pkg-config... /usr/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 ‘/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RGtk2’ > > The downloaded source packages are in > ‘/tmp/Rtmphfaxc3/downloaded_packages’ > Warning message: > In install.packages("RGtk2") : > installation of package ‘RGtk2’ had non-zero exit status > > > > I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to solve this. Any help would be > appreciated. Otherwise, I guess I'd be SOL for trying it out and fall > back to my existing two options. > > Thanks... > -- > Brian Lunergan > Russell, ON > Canada > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
