This is a package that provides the Gtk graphics device in R as a stand-alone package with no reliance on Gnome or the R-Gnome user interface. It also provides a simple mechanism for telling R to use an arbitrary Gtk drawing area widget as the "canvas" on which a Gtk device should draw. When combined with RGtk, one can create GUIs which contain embedded graphics devices.

One can also create different containers for graphics devices, including notebooks, scrolled graphics devices, paned devices, etc. See screen shots.

Download

The package is available as a GNU-zipped tar file gtk_0.3-0.tar.gz.

In the future, we will probably be able to provide a binary for Windows.

Installation

To install, issue the command
 R CMD INSTALL gtk_0.3-0.tar.gz
This will need to be able to find the gtk-config executable in order to find the details needed for compiling and linking Gtk applications on your machine.
Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr>

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com> Last modified: Fri Feb 22 07:37:13 EST 2002