[BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

Sat Jan 2 21:59:42 UTC 2016

Thanks for your kind response Jonathan, even while on the holiday.

  Since I was not able to find the .tar.gz file on the link to the GitHub
you provided, I might need to google that file again.

  Thank you I will try it.

  Best regards,

       JooYoung

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Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

Hi,

I assume you downloaded the Mac version of the package from CRAN, or the
source package from GitHub.

In either case, you should have a file ending in tar.gz not zip which is
Windows-centric.

You would then use the install.packages() command with the first argument
being the filename and then set repos=NULL. You might see the help page for
install.packages() for quicker response than using me while I am on holiday
can offer.

Cheers,

Jonathan

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Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

  Thanks for your help Jonathan,

I tried to manually install gridGraphics on my Mac system, but I was not
able to find what I should issue in the command line for this performance
while there were many search results explaining how to install local package
using R-GUI which kept leading me to trap.

Would you mind letting me know how I could install the downloaded zip file
package into the system for all users?

 Appreciatively,

       JooYoung

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Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

And here is the link to GitHub:

https://github.com/pmur002/gridgraphics

I see that Image magic is required for testing. I wonder if that is the
problem you have. Sorry I don't know where to get that for a Mac, but
perhaps track it down and install it before next trying to install the
package in R.

Jonathan

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Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

Hello,

I suggest trying to install gridGraphics first, possibly using a manually
downloaded archive instead of the CRAN release. I know the package is under
constant development as I work with Paul Murrell on a few things.

If you go the manual route,  I would try the version from GitHub which might
have the bug fixes you need.

An update to BrailleR is coming in the next two weeks or so, and I know the
dependence on gridGraphics remains, especially as this is what we need for
converting various graphs into a form that will allow the fonts to be
altered to braille. This is a new way to get the braille working so it is
fairly crucial that we get to the bottom of this installation problem.

In the short term, installation of an older version of gridGraphics might
work for you. BrailleR will not check the version number (yet) so presence
is better than absence. The use of the SVGThis() and BRLThis() functions
will be compromised if the gridGraphics version is too old though. The
version that was current when I first introduced this dependency was
sufficient though which means no one was left behind so to speak.

Jonathan

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Subject: [BlindRUG] Installation failure: the gridGraphics package

Happy new year list!

  I hope you all had a fantastic start of the new year!

  I am writing to ask your help to address the following issue:

  I've installed the latest R on my Mac and tried to install BrailleR
package, but I was not able to complete the installation since the
gridGraphics which is one of the BrailleR's dependencies had non-zero exit
status. Please see the warning message below:

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Warning message:

In install.packages("gridGraphics") :

  installation of package 'gridGraphics' had non-zero exit status

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  I tested both on Macbook Air and pro, and faced the same problem.

  Any help will be so much appreciated!

  Sincerely,

       JooYoung Seo

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