Thu, 02 Feb 2006

RGtk2 packages available

Michael Lawrence announced the release of RGtk2 yesterday on both r-packages and r-sig-gui. This follows his impressive presentation at DSC 2005 and finally makes the code available.

RGtk2 is, as the name suggests, an update of the older RGtk package (that I'd been maintaining in Debian as r-omegahat-rgtk) to the 'newer' version 2 of Gtk (aka The GIMP Toolkit). It provides Gtk goodies for the amazing R language and environment many of us dig for its use in statistical computing, visualization, data analysis, estimation and more.

RGtk2 is quite an achievement. The source package is huge at 1.9mb, the resulting Debian package even huger at 5.3mb, and it all seems to work fine based on some initial tests of running the demos. Based on the two source packages, I created two packages of RGtk2 (as r-omegahat-rgtk2) and the Cairo device (as r-omegahat-cairodevice) which you can fetch from here.

Not sure if I feel the urge to maintain them, but if someone else wants to step forward, let me know. Sources and diffs are in the same directory. Feedback welcome.

Update: By the way, what do we need to build with gtkmozembed? I didn't find a proper Build-Depends: for this.

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