Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-22 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
After digging some more: the problem is related to installation of RGtk2, and in particular on failing to load RGtk2.ddl . Looking at build logs, I get this error (which is repeated N times until install crashes): > Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) : > unable to load share

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 October 2016 at 18:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | No, it wouldn't be acceptable on CRAN. You need to declare your | dependencies. | | It sounds as though there's a bug somewhere, in R, RStudio, | gWidgetRGtk2, or Windows. You're in the unenviable position of having | to find and fix it.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 20/10/2016 4:14 PM, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: Ok. Duly noted. I'll be more concise and avoid even simple formatting (seems italics broke my last post to pieces). I'll try again. My main problem is that, if I have "gWidgetRGtk2" as an imported package, installation on Windows from github crashes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Ok. Duly noted. I'll be more concise and avoid even simple formatting (seems italics broke my last post to pieces). I'll try again. My main problem is that, if I have "gWidgetRGtk2" as an imported package, installation on Windows from github crashes RStudio while trying to install GTK+ libraries

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Lorenzo, Your mails are too long (at least for my attention span, and available time) and very poorly formatted. Many of us read email in text-only terminals. On 20 October 2016 at 11:05, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | I also have a (maybe stupid) question on this: in theory, I could write | this "con

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Hi Duncan and Dirk, 1) First of all, thanks for your replies ​: ​y​ ou put me in the right direction. Although I have to study a bit to really get the "syntax", looking into Jeroen github pages I was able to understand ​how the "configure" file is supposed to work. In practice, it is run while at

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/10/2016 5:24 PM, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: Hi Dirk, thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, in our github README we have the following intructions: "Install the following required dependencies: Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2.8.0, GLi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 October 2016 at 23:24, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, | in our github README we have | the following intructions: | | "Install the following required dependencies: | | Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Hi Dirk, thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, in our github README we have the following intructions: "Install the following required dependencies: Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2.8.0, GLib >= 2.8.0 (required by package RGtk2) Curl (req

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
For this subproblem: On 19 October 2016 at 22:14, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | On Linux builds, the problem is related but a bit different. | | 1. First of all, package "RGTk2" requires some external libraries to yu can just install r-cran-rgtk2 on your (Debian or Ubuntu) system and you should b

[R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Dear all, I am currently in the process of releasing this github package on CRAN: https://github.com/lbusett/MODIStsp , but I am encountering some issues which I hope someone can help me overcome. Sorry for the long message, but the problem is difficult to explain briefly. Also, since thi