[R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Michael Gormley wrote:

> Thanks for your prompt responses.  I will take a look at the R
> Installation and Administration manual.  Where can I obtain the tcl-devel
> and tk-devel files?

They are RedHat RPMs.

> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>       On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>
>             This is covered in the "R Installation and
>             Administration" manual.  You need to specify the
>             location of your tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh
>             files.
> 
> 
> And he will not have those.  He needs tcl-devel and tk-devel
> installed, and then (as this is a RedHat/Fedora system) the
> tclConfig.sh etc will be found by configure (for R, and for some of
> the packages).
> 
> tcltk2 is mentioned. That need Tcl/Tk extensions that I have failed
> to get to work correctly with on F8: it is a path issue with where
> the Fedora packages install the extensions.
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________
> Patrick Richardson
> Biostatistician - Laboratory of Translational Medicine
> Van Andel Research Institute
> Grand Rapids, MI  49503
> ph. 616-234-5787
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Gormley
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:29 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system
> 
> trying to install the pbatR package, I was greeted with the
> error
> 
> Error: package 'tcltk' does not have a name space
> Execution halted
> 
> Directly installing the package tcltk2 returned the following
> error:
> 
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>       Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> 
> I have seen from previous posts that tcl/tk must be present
> when R is
> installed.
> I tried reinstalling R from source using
> 
> ./configure
> make
> 
> and although the installation went fine I received the same
> errors.
> 
> Typing rpm -qa|grep tcl returns:
> tclx-8.3.5-4
> tcl-8.4.7-2
> tcl-8.4.7-2
> 
> Typing rpm -qa|grep tk returns:
> gtkspell-2.0.7-2
> atk-1.8.0-2
> gtk+-1.2.10-33
> gtk2-2.4.13-22
> authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.3
> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
> tk-8.4.7-2
> gtksourceview-1.1.0-4
> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
> tk-8.4.7-2
> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
> gtkglarea-1.2.2-16
> gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7.el4
> gtkhtml3-3.3.2-6.EL
> usermode-gtk-1.74-1
> atk-1.8.0-2
> gtk2-2.4.13-22
> pygtk2-libglade-2.4.0-1
> gtk+-1.2.10-33
> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
> pygtk2-2.4.0-1
> 
> So it seems that tcl and tk are present on the system.  I saw
> a post
> suggesting that I may need some development packages?  What
> is a good place
> to find these packages?
> 
> I am running R version 2.5.1 on a Linux machine running
> Redhat Enterprise 3.
> 
> 
> Let me know if you need any more info on the operating system
> and if there
> are any ideas on how to resolve these issues.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Gormley
> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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