[R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 or 10.6

[John Fox]

Dear Dwight,

The tcltk package *is* part of the standard R distribution. It is Tcl/Tk
itself for X11 that you needed to install. I think that it too is part of
the standard R distribution and am not sure why wasn't on your system. I'm
copying this reply to Rob Goedman, who is much more knowledgeable than I
about R on Mac OS X.

Regards,
 John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
> Behalf Of Krehbiel, Dwight
> Sent: March-15-10 10:32 AM
> To: 'John Fox'; 'r-help at r-project.org'
> Subject: Re: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS
10.5
> or 10.6
> 
> Thanks very much, John. Installing that tcltk package is all that is
> required. It would be nice to make this a part of the download of 2.10.1
as
> it is wasting a significant amount of time for R Commander users on the
Mac.
> 
> Dwight
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:01 PM
> To: Krehbiel, Dwight
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS
10.5
> or 10.6
> 
> Dear Dwight,
> 
> I've never observed this problem myself, and many people apparently run
the
> tcltk and Rcmdr packages with R 2.10.1 under Mac OS 10.6 without
difficulty.
> You can confirm that the problem is with tcltk by trying to load that
> package independently of the Rcmdr: i.e., library(tcltk).
> 
> Similar questions have been raised several times, however, on both r-help
> and the r-mac-sig lists, including in the last week. The problem is
probably
> with your installation of Tcl/Tk. See, e.g., Rob Goedman's recent post to
> r-help, and the following message from r-sig-mac, which tells you what to
> do.: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-January/007008.html>.
> 
> I hope this helps (please tell me and the list whether it does).
> 
> John
> 
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Senator William McMaster
>   Professor of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Krehbiel, Dwight
> > Sent: March-14-10 12:22 PM
> > To: 'r-help at r-project.org'
> > Subject: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5
> or
> > 10.6
> >
> > Dear R Commander experts,
> >
> > I have now had multiple failures in loading R Commander with R version
> 2.10.1
> > (most recent one on the CRAN site) on a Mac running OS 10.5 or 10.6. The
> > installation of R Commander seems to proceed normally, but when I try to
> > start up R Commander, it never loads. It appears that it is loading the
> > tcl/tk package that is failing even though I have started up X11 in
> advance.
> > Does anyone have any experience with this? I know that one of my
students
> > encountered the same problem, and I have experienced it on more than one
> > machine - both PowerPC and Intel-based. We are routinely running early
> > versions of R and R Commander.
> >
> > I would appreciate any clues.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dwight Krehbiel
> > Bethel College
> > North Newton, KS 6717
> >
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