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From: janko.thyson.rstuff at googlemail.com (Janko Thyson)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:07:00 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found,
 but it's there
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Okay, at least some positive result today (language issue ;-))

Thanks for trying. Seems like GTK2 and me are not meant to be ...

Regards,
Janko

On 10.06.2011 14:36, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> It is a Microsoft error message, so your Windows is translating it, 
> not R.  It does say 'The specified module' in English Windows, without 
> saying who specified the module (but it does often produce a popup 
> naming the module).
>
> I've no better idea what your problem is: the @ReadMe instructions 
> work for me, Uwe on winbuilder and in our teaching lab (and the advice 
> in RGtk2 does not).
>
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:
>
>> On 10.06.2011 13:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>       On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:
>>
>>             Dear list,
>>
>>             I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run
>>             every other month for a while, but somehow I simply can't
>>             figure out what's going wrong.
>>
>>
>>       Your subject line indicates your confusion.  It does not say
>>       RGtk2.dll cannot be found (at least, the English version of the
>>       message does not say so).
>>
>>       What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on
>>       cannot be found.  See the instructions at
>>       http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe
>>
>>       It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your answer. I followed the advice in the readme file and 
>> installed
>>
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.0-201010 
>>
>> 16_win32.zip
>> Previously I made sure that all other previously installed GTK+ runtime
>> environments were removed and that the windows PATH reflects the 
>> correct path to
>> the "new" GTK+ files. I also made sure I started a new R session 
>> before trying
>> 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)' again. Yet, the same error. More precisely, 
>> a dialog box
>> pops up asking me to install GTK+ or not. That's what's confusing me 
>> as well: the
>> package's recommendation with respect to the version of an GTK+ runtime
>> environment is somewhat out-of-sync with the advice in the readme, 
>> even though it
>> the version is fairly recent (2011-04-30)
>>
>> Sorry for the german part in the error message, but I wasn't able to 
>> get it all
>> to English (tried language = en in Rconsole file, setting up a 
>> Renviron.site with
>> LANGUAGE=en, setting Sys.setenv("LANGUAGE"="en") and 
>> Sys.setenv("LC_ALL"="en") to
>> no avail; not a good R day today ;-)). I freely translated it for you:
>>
>> Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
>> Loading required package: gWidgets
>> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>  unable to load shared object
>> 'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
>>  LoadLibrary failure:  the specified module could not be found.
>>
>> Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
>> Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
>> If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is 
>> installed and that
>> it is on your PATH environment variable
>> IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
>> Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', 
>> details:
>>  call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
>>  error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
>> "RGtk2"
>>
>> Do you have any other idea what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Janko
>>
>>
>>
>>             I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime
>>             environment for Windows
>>             
>> (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe
>>             as described in the package's 
>> vignette,http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101
>>             227_win32.zip)
>>
>>             I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.
>>
>>             Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains
>>             that the RGtk2.dll can't be found/loaded (see below). But
>>             this file definitely exists. I'm running R-2.13.0 from a
>>             USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 'lib'
>>             are set propperly in 'install.packages'.
>>
>>             Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
>>             Loading required package: gWidgets
>>             Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
>>             :
>>              unable to load shared object
>>             'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
>>              LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht
>>             gefunden.
>>
>>             Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to
>>             install it.
>>             Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
>>             If the package still does not load, please ensure that
>>             GTK+ is installed and that it is on your PATH environment
>>             variable
>>             IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE
>>             AGAIN
>>             Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for
>>             'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
>>              call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
>>              error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL
>>             for package "RGtk2"
>>
>>             Best regards,
>>             Janko
>>
>>             R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>>             Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>>             locale:
>>             [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252
>>             LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
>>             [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>             [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>>
>>             attached base packages:
>>             [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
>>             methods   base
>>
>>             other attached packages:
>>             [1] gWidgets_0.0-44
>>
>>             loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>             [1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-74 RGtk2_2.20.12
>>             tools_2.13.0
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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[Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there
Janko Thyson