2.17 Install Rattle V5 Deprecated
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Rattle V5 is still usable but requires a bit of setup on different platforms and significantly older version of R. We do not recommend using Rattle V5 given the demise of the RGtk2 package on CRAN and the modern rewrite of the user interface for Rattle V6, but it may be there if you need it. Most of the functionality has migrated to V6 and anything missing is a bug and should be reported on the github repository as an issue.
The old installation instructions suggesterd intalling base R and then the R2U packages. Then install the required gtk packages and start up R as the admin user to install the latest version of Rattle V5 (version 5.5.2):
wajig install libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev
sudo R -e 'install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com", type="source")'Then install RGtk2 package pre-built for GNU/Linux:
curl https://access.togaware.com/RGtk2_2.20.36.2_prebuilt_linux.zip -o RGtk2_2.20.36.2_prebuilt_linux.zip
sudo unzip RGtk2_2.20.36.2_prebuilt_linux.zip -d /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Now start Rattle V5:
$ R
> library(rattle)
> rattle()Best of luck!
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