[R] tk problem with R 2.2.0 on wine/linux

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,

This is interresting. I think you did the big part of the job if 
SciViews-R is starting. tcltk is used independently from the rest of 
SciViews-R, for some dialog boxes and for R Commander. I think you 
should try now to run tcltk on the plain RGui.exe under wine. I guess it 
will eliminate various possible interferences... and then, if you 
succeed, go back to RGui + SciViews-R + tcltk under Wine.

Unfortunatelly, I cannot help you much here (except if I have some code 
to change for a better behaviour of SciViews-R under Wine).

For the use of tcltk with RGui.exe under Wine, the best person to 
contact is the tcltk maintainer, that is, Peter Dalgaard.

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

P.S.: What about the performances of R / SciViews-R under Wine???

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Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Actually I am trying to run sciview-R and encounted some problems with
> tk, and I thought I'll check the basic library(tcltk) functionallity,
> just to be sure. Anybody seen that  '[tcl] bad window path name ".1".'
> message before?
> 
> Prof. Philippe Grosjean: yes, I have managed to load most of
> sciview-R under Wine, except the tcltk library!
> 
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> 
>  > library(tcltk)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>  > demo(tkdensity)
> 
> 
>         demo(tkdensity)
>         ---- ~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Type  <Return>   to start :
> 
>  > require(tcltk) || stop("tcltk support is absent")
> [1] TRUE
> 
>  > require(graphics)
> [1] TRUE
> 
>  > require(stats)
> [1] TRUE
> 
>  > local({
>     y <- NULL
>     xlim <- NULL
>     size <- tclVar(50.000000)
>     dist <- tclVar(1.000000)
>     kernel <- tclVar("gaussian")
>     bw <- tclVar(1.000000)
>     bw.sav <- 1.000000
>     replot <- function(...) {
>         if (is.null(y))
>             re .... [TRUNCATED]
> Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), 
> class = "tclObj") :
>         [tcl] bad window path name ".1".
>  > demo(tkttest)
> 
> 
>         demo(tkttest)
>         ---- ~~~~~~~
> 
> Type  <Return>   to start :
> 
>  > require(tcltk) || stop("tcltk support is absent")
> [1] TRUE
> 
>  > require(stats)
> [1] TRUE
> 
>  > local({
>     dialog.t.test <- function() {
>         tt <- tktoplevel()
>         tkwm.title(tt, "t test")
>         x.entry <- tkentry(tt, textvariable = xvar)
>         y.entry <- tkentry(tt, textvariable = yvar)
>         alt <- tclVar("two.sided")
>         d .... [TRUNCATED]
> ******************************************************
>  The source for this demo can be found in the file:
>  C:/PROG~FBU/R/R-2_~MVR.0/library/tcltk/demo/tkttest.R
> ******************************************************
> Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), 
> class = "tclObj") :
>         [tcl] bad window path name ".2".
>  >
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> 
>