R help - Mar 2012 - suggestions for debugging problem with a package

I am trying to resolve a problem I am having with running the rattle package on
two different Windows 7 x64 systems.  It appears to be a problem with my two
specific systems, because others on Windows 7 x64 systems aren't complaining
about this problem.  What I am looking for is a method for trying to determine
the source of the problem.

Here is what I am experiencing.  I had Rattle running fine (and it still does)
under R-2.14.1 (CRAN binary build).  I installed R-2.14.2 and ran
update.packages().  When I loaded rattle using library(rattle), it apparently
got loaded OK.
> library(rattle)
Rattle: A free graphical interface for data mining with R.
Version 2.6.17 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Togaware Pty Ltd.
Type 'rattle()' to shake, rattle, and roll your
data.
> 
When I tried to run rattle using 

rattle()  

I got a popup window with the message

"R for Windows GUI front-end has stopped working.  A problem caused the
program to stop working correctly.  Windows will close the program and notify
you if a solution is available."

I am not sure how to proceed to track down this problem, since I get no messages
from either the package or from R because R itself stops working.  I downloaded
R-2.14.2patched and experienced the same problem.    Any suggestions about how
to debug this problem?

Thanks,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA

On 13.03.2012 07:15, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> I am trying to resolve a problem I am having with running the rattle
package on two different Windows 7 x64 systems.  It appears to be a problem with
my two specific systems, because others on Windows 7 x64 systems aren't
complaining about this problem.  What I am looking for is a method for trying to
determine the source of the problem.
If you have systems with same version of Windows, same R, both 64-bit, 
and they behave differently, then it may happen because of different 
versions of the Gtk framework.

Have you run

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)

(to get updated R packages) and installed a recent enough version of Gtk?

Uwe Ligges


>
> Here is what I am experiencing.  I had Rattle running fine (and it still
does) under R-2.14.1 (CRAN binary build).  I installed R-2.14.2 and ran
update.packages().  When I loaded rattle using library(rattle), it apparently
got loaded OK.
>
>> library(rattle)
> Rattle: A free graphical interface for data mining with R.
> Version 2.6.17 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Togaware Pty Ltd.
> Type 'rattle()' to shake, rattle, and roll your data.
>>
>
> When I tried to run rattle using
>
> rattle()
>
> I got a popup window with the message
>
> "R for Windows GUI front-end has stopped working.  A problem caused
the program to stop working correctly.  Windows will close the program and
notify you if a solution is available."
>
> I am not sure how to proceed to track down this problem, since I get no
messages from either the package or from R because R itself stops working.  I
downloaded R-2.14.2patched and experienced the same problem.    Any suggestions
about how to debug this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel Nordlund
> Bothell, WA USA
>
>
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