This sounds like a DLL conflict to me. For example, do you have Matlab
installed? Sometimes if Matlab is on the PATH, the DLLs can conflict.
Michael
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello dear R-help list and Michael Lawrence.
>
> I wish to use GTK with R.
> I installed the newest RGtk2 and GTK from:
>
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gladewin32/files/gtk%2B-win32-devel/2.12.9/gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe/download
> on the path:
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\
>
> And followed the instructions on the installation manual for RGtk2, and
> added the line:
> GTK_PATH=C:/Program Files/Common Files/GTK/2.0
> To the
> etc/Renviron.site
> file.
>
>
> Yet when I come to load the package via require("RGtk2"), I get
the
> following *error massage*:
>
>> the procedure entry point libiconv_set_relocation_prefix could not be
>> located in the dynamic linke library iconv.dll
>
>
> And then (in the R console) I get:
> Loading required package: RGtk2
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
> unable to load shared library 'C:/Program
> Files/R/library/RGtk2/libs/RGtk2.dll':
> LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.
>
> The interesting thing is that after I install GTK (through the
> auto-install), then RGtk2 loads without error in R. But if I try to run
> something, for example:
> demo(alphaSlider)
> I will get the error massage:
> Error in .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE) :
> C symbol name "S_gtk_window_new" not in DLL for package
"RGtk2"
>
>
> Upon restarting R, again, I wouldn't be able to use
require("RGtk2")
>
> Here is my sessionInfo()
>
>> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
>
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
>
>> locale:
>
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
>
>> attached base packages:
>
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
>
>> other attached packages:
>
> [1] RGtk2_2.12.18
>
>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>
> [1] tools_2.11.0
>
>
> (I am running win XP)
>
>
> I tried searching for this error on the mailing list and on google, but
> couldn't find a solution.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tal
>
>
>
>
>
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