[R] rggobi: Installation problems on OS X Snow Leopard

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) Please use the R-sig-mac list for Mac-specific questions.

2) The isssue here is there is no binary package on CRAN.  You could 
try

install.packages("rggobi", type="source")

but I can tell you this will run into problems unless you have 
pkg-config installed and suitably configured.

I suggest you ask the maintainer in the first instance (he is a Mac 
user) then follow up on R-sig-mac.

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Betsy Nichols wrote:

> Hello:
> I have successfully installed both R and R64  for Apple OS X from
> CRAN  plus GTK+2.14 and GGobi 2.1.8 from:
> http://www.ggobi.org/downloads
>
> I launch either R or R64 and try to install the rrgobi package and get
> (with R64) the following:
>
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
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>
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
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> [R.app GUI 1.31 (5537) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
>> install.packages("rggobi")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ‘rggobi’ is not available
>>
>
> I get substantially the same thing with R.
>
> Here is some info about my OS:
>  System Version:	Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
>  Kernel Version:	Darwin 10.2.0
>  Boot Mode:	Normal
>  Secure Virtual Memory:	Not Enabled
>  64-bit Kernel and Extensions:	No
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Any help would be MOST appreciated.
> Thanks
> Betsy
>
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