I am new to data mining and R. Please provide how to proceed with following query.
I want to use the R-package Rattle for my data analysis on my MS Win 10- X64 system. I am following these instructions. I install the package using
install.packages("rattle")
After selecting a CRAN mirror, it RGUI installs the package and gives following message:
package ‘rattle’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpYnMZM1\downloaded_packages
after that I run the code,
library(rattle)
and RGui gives following response;
Rattle: A free graphical interface for data mining with R.
Version 4.1.0 Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Togaware Pty Ltd.
Type 'rattle()' to shake, rattle, and roll your data.
After this, I call the function 'rattle'.
rattle()
and I get the following error:
Error in method(obj, ...) : Invalid root element: 'requires'
I tried the same in the RStudio console as well. Also, I uninstalled RStudio and R X64, X386 and re-installed the same and tried again, but I fail to browse the reason for this error.
It seems RGtk2 related. grep
in installed rattle directory shows this
$ grep 'requires' -r .
./etc/rattle.glade: <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 2.16 -->
./etc/rattle.ui: <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 3.0 -->
./etc/rattle.ui.160313: <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 3.0 -->
./etc/rattle.ui.with_export_filechooser: <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 3.0 -->
./etc/rattle_macosx.ui: <requires lib="gtk+" version="2.16"/>
./NEWS: * Note rattle.ui requires gtk > 2.16, not > 2.20. Otherwise fails to
./NEWS: * Check for GtkBuilder handling of the 'requires' tag, and if not
./NEWS: Gtk library installed does not recognise 'requires' and suggest a
Seems RGtk2
is causing the problem, emitting complains about the presence of the element named requires
.
Solution I:
Downgrade RGtk2 from 2.20.33
to 2.20.31
worked for me.
Solution II:
Later I upgrade everything to the latest, including Windows GTK+2. Rattle stopped working. But rattle
works again when invoked as below:
rattle( useGtkBuilder = TRUE)
Now I stick with the latter way.
On RGtk/GTK+ version:
I can't drag Rattle gui window around or resize it freely on Windows 7. This has been a constant pain. Higher version of RGtk2 or GTK2 doesn't seem to fix it (demo apps in GTK2 folder doesn't have this problem. But RGtk2
demo scripts do). So RGtk/Gtk+ version didn't make any difference for me.
PS:
If you are running R-3.4.0 and trying to install the dev version from togaware.com
, download http://rattle.togaware.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/rattle_5.0.10.zip
( which is actually built with R-3.4.0 thus doesn't work on 3.3.3 ) install it locally.
Use the script below for the install the dev version 5.0.18 as of 7/10. It'll save you from all the hassle
install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com")
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