[R] tcl/tk - Install problem using MacOS X / X11

[John Fox]

Dear Achim,

I'm not a Mac user, so can only offer limited help, but I wonder whether
you've looked at the Rcmdr installation notes at
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>?
There are instructions there for getting the Rcmdr package working on Macs.

I hope that this helps,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Achim Kayser
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:38 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] tcl/tk - Install problem using MacOS X / X11
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sorry, my first post was in German.
> 
> I tried to get Rcmdr running under MacOS X 10.4.5. While RGui 
> pretends that tcltk is running, starting Rcmdr freezes R completely.
> Instead, JGR which gave me the following results:
> 
>  > library(tcltk)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in fun(...) : no display 
> name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
>  >
> I tried
> 
> Sys.putenv("DISPLAY"=":0")
> 
> which indeed resulted in a line in Rprofile:
> 
> ## non standard settings for the R.app GUI of the Mac OS X 
> port if(.Platform$GUI == "AQUA") {
>      ## this is set to let RAqua use both X11 device and
>      ## X11/TclTk
>      if (Sys.getenv("DISPLAY") == "")
> 	Sys.putenv("DISPLAY" = ":0")
> 
>      ## this is to allow g77 compiler to work
>      Sys.putenv("PATH" = 
> paste(Sys.getenv("PATH"),":/usr/local/bin",sep
> = ""))
> }## end "Aqua"
> 
> Anay ideas what`s wrong ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Achim
> 
> 
> 
> Hallo !
> 
> Ich habe versucht Rcmdr unter MacOSX 10.4.5 zu installieren. 
> RGui zeigt an, dass tcl/tk laufen. Bei Aufruf von Rcmdr 
> friert R jedoch komplett ein.
> JGR zeigt im Paketmanager dagegen an, dass tcl/tk nicht 
> gestartet werden konnte und spuckt folgende Meldung aus:
> 
> 
> > library(tcltk)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in fun(...) : no display 
> name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
> >
> 
> Ideen ?
> 
> Achim
> 
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