DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home List of Figures List of Tables Data Mining Introduction Data Mining with Rattle Data Exploring Data Transforming Data Cluster Analysis Association Analysis Classification and Regression Models Evaluation and Deployment Issues Moving into R Troubleshooting Beyond Rattle R Data Graphics in R Understanding Data Preparing Data Descriptive and Predictive Analytics Issues Evaluating Models Reporting Cluster Analysis Text Mining Text Mining Algorithms Bagging Bayes Classifier Cluster Analysis Conditional Trees Hierarchical Clustering K-Nearest Neighbours Linear Models Neural Networks Support Vector Machines Open Products AlphaMiner Borgelt Data Mining Suite KNime R Rattle Weka Closed Products C4.5 Clementine Equbits Foresight GhostMiner InductionEngine ODM Enterprise Miner Statistica Data Miner TreeNet Virtual Predict Appendicies Installing GTK, R, and Rattle Glossary Bibliography Index

Preliminaries

The first step in installing Rattle is to install the GTK+ libraries, which provide the Gnome user interface used by Rattle. We need to install the correct GTK+ package for our operating system. This installation is independent of the installation of R itself and is emphasised as a preliminary step that is often overlooked when installing Rattle.

If you are new to R there are then just a few steps to get up and running with Rattle.

If you are running on a Macintosh,^A.6 be sure to run R from inside X11 (off the XCode CD) using the X11 shell to start R. Native Macintosh GTK+ is not fully supported. (You also need to use gcc 4.0.3, rather than the Macintosh's version 4.0.1.)

Finally, be sure to install the Glade libraries before installing the RGtk2, since RGtk2 will ignore libraries that it can't find at the time of installation (e.g., you may find a ``newGladeXML is undefined'' error message when starting up Rattle even if you have installed glade, later on).

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