[R] tcltk makes R crash under Mavericks

[Berend Hasselman]

On 13-01-2014, at 19:53, Claudia Tebaldi <claudia.tebaldi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, thank you, as I said I did reinstall R and tcltk. That's not the problem. 
> 

Look at what you wrote:

"I tried reinstalling
everything (R and the packages, and the tools' tcltk package -- even if I
think it should be bundled with R by default).”

As I replied, it is bundled with R 3.0.0 and higher by default. You installed tcl/tk separately?

> For some reason loading the package still makes R crash. 
> 

Can’t help you with that.
This belongs on R-SIG-Mac mailing list.

Berend

> 
> 
> Claudia Tebaldi
> Project Scientist, 
> CGD/NCAR
> and Science Fellow
> Climate Central
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> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 13-01-2014, at 19:30, Claudia Tebaldi <claudia.tebaldi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I was just forced to upgrade my OS X to Mavericks. Everything seemed to be
> > OK, R still worked seemingly fine within emacs (am using the latest
> > version, R 3.0.2, and the latest version of ESS, with Emacs 24.3.1) until I
> > tried loading the library extRemes. Apparently the call within that library
> > to load tcltk was the culprit. In fact R crashes simply by trying to load
> > the latter (without trying loading extRemes). I tried reinstalling
> > everything (R and the packages, and the tools' tcltk package -- even if I
> > think it should be bundled with R by default).
> 
> It is bundled with R 3.0.0 and higher. See the NOTE in bold on http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools
> Just install R and you will have tcl/tk 8.6.0.
> 
> Berend
> 
> > R keeps crashing with a
> > simple "R process terminated" message.
> > Everything worked just swimmingly under Snow Leopard. Sigh.
> >
> > Can anybody please help?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Claudia
> >
> > Claudia Tebaldi
> > Project Scientist,
> > CGD/NCAR
> > and Science Fellow
> > Climate Central
> > (303) 497 1710 w
> > (303) 775 5365 c
> >
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