[R] Fail to open R 2.6.1 - additional information

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/28/2007 9:41 AM, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:
> This is additional information to my previous email (pasted below)
> 
> 
> ## I opened an R session ( R 2.6.0 on Windows) and got the following
> pop-up window:
> 
> ## "This application has failed to start because tk84.dll was not
> found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem"
>  
> ## I have now upgraded to R 2.6.1 but the same fatal error comes up.
> 
> ## Can someone let me know what is going on?
> 
> 
> I have started an empty R session and tried to load the workspace I
> can't open (above)
> I get the error message:
> 
>> load("E:\\WORKSPACE_I CANNOT OPEN")
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ...Error in dyn.load(file, ...) : 
>   unable to load shared library
> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.1/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.dll':
>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found. 
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> 
> 
> How can I fix it?

I suspect you installed R without "Support files for TCLTK".

Your workspace appears to have something in it that refers to the tcltk 
package, and it needs TCLTK installed to work.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>> version
>                _                           
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch           i386                        
> os             mingw32                     
> system         i386, mingw32               
> status                                     
> major          2                           
> minor          6.1                         
> year           2007                        
> month          11                          
> day            26                          
> svn rev        43537                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> 
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