R fails after installing GTK and RGtk2

Question

I\'ve installed R3.0 on my Mountain Lion Mac and after some trial and error the version of GTK suggested by http://r.research.att.com/ for R3.0: GTK+ 2.24.17 framework.

Answer 1

I too had this problem. Here is how I worked around it using macports gtk2 -- not the http://r.research.att.com/ version. This was with R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport", also compiled from source.

install gtk2

sudo port install gtk2 ## (X11 -- not aqua)

configure

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

then install

I downloaded RGtk2 and cairoDevice from CRAN and did source install:

R CMD INSTALL RGtk2
R CMD INSTALL cairoDevice