RGtk2 - missing gladexmlnew

Question

I just installed the RGtk2 package on a new machine and gladexmlnew seems to be missing (i.e. I get a could not find function gladexmlnew error after loading the RGtk2 package).

I have libglade, libglade2 and corresponding -devel packages installed.

What am I missing? The help file doesn't seem to help.

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SOLUTION: I seem to have found the solution, so I am posting it here. Apparently libglade has been deprecated in favour of GTKBuilder and RGtk2 does not include it anymore.

This page has some informations on how to migrate from libglade to GTKBuilder.

Answer 1

Thanks for the follow-up. I have only two comments:

1. Version 2.20.3 loads fine on my Ubuntu machines under R 2.12.0.

2. A quick grep -i gladexmlnew in both the R/ and src/ directories of the RGtk2 package showed no hits, so this does not seem to be a symbol used by the package.

so it looks like this may be particular to your Fedora versions of the Gtk libraries. But that is just a guess on my part.