
When in doubt, I recommend giving the quick installation below a try and if RGtk2 does not install properly right away, not to waste any time trying to get it to work and instead just taking the work-around route below. For example, with R 3.1.1 and Mac OS X 10.9.3 it seems to work mostly without trouble (tested in July 2014), but with R 3.1.2 and Mac OS X 10.10.1, the work-around was necessary again (tested in December 2014). Certain combinations of R and Mac OS X have trouble with this ( details on the problem and instructions on how to work around it below).

With some versions of R > 3.1 and Mac OS X, GTK+ now works out of the box with the following installation instructions. in installations from GitHub using devtools, try: install_github(., reload=F, quick=T). If the other package depends on RGtk2 and installation from source fails during package test loading with an error that RGtk2 could not be found, try installing without automatic reload, e.g. Note: for some reason on Windows 8, the RGtk2 package is not always recognized during compilation of other source packages, even if it can be loaded and works perfectly fine.

Installation information for R with GTK+ Windows
