[R] Odd crash with tcl/tk

[AndrewPage]

Hi,

Recently, I've been trying to use packages in R that require loading the
Tcl/Tk interface.  However, I get a strange result and a crash that I
haven't been able to find discussion about on these boards (or any others).

When I enter library(tcltk), it reads "Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... ", but
then never says "done" or displays some sort of error message.  Looks like
this:

> x11()
> library(tcltk)
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... 
> 


Now you can type additional commands in, at your peril!  For example, if I
type in the text "library", nothing happens, but "library(" causes R to
freeze up irreparably, with "executing:
try(gsub('\\s+','',paste(capture.output(print(args(library)))),collapse=")),silent=TRUE)"
displayed at the bottom.  When this happens, there's nothing you can do but
restart R because it's completely frozen.

I'm running R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-07-27 r52627)

[R.app GUI 1.35 (5603) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]

with XQuartz 2.3.5 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple53)

on a mac (snow leopard)

Thanks for any help/suggestions in advance,

Andrew
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