[R] Weird tcl error with R on WSL Ubuntu

[Erin Hodgess]

Hello everyone!

Happy Spring.

I'm trying to install the "geoR" package on my WSL Ubuntu.  It keeps giving
me the following error:
* byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Warning: S3 methods ‘as.character.tclObj’, ‘as.character.tclVar’,
‘as.double.tclObj’, ‘as.integer.tclObj’, ‘as.logical.tclObj’,
‘as.raw.tclObj’, ‘print.tclObj’, ‘[[.tclArray’, ‘[[<-.tclArray’,
‘$.tclArray’, ‘$<-.tclArray’, ‘names.tclArray’, ‘names<-.tclArray’,
‘length.tclArray’, ‘length<-.tclArray’, ‘tclObj.tclVar’, ‘tclObj<-.tclVar’,
‘tclvalue.default’, ‘tclvalue.tclObj’, ‘tclvalue.tclVar’,
‘tclvalue<-.default’, ‘tclvalue<-.tclVar’, ‘close.tkProgressBar’ were
declared in NAMESPACE but not found
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details:
  call: fun(libname, pkgname)
  error: Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system

However, I just installed tcl 8.6 dev and tk 8.6 dev:
sudo apt-get install tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libxft-dev libxss-dev
Suggested packages:
  tcl8.6-doc tk8.6-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxft-dev libxss-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1851 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8377 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libxft-dev amd64
2.3.4-1 [52.4 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libxss-dev amd64
1:1.2.3-1build2 [12.3 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 tcl8.6-dev amd64
8.6.12+dfsg-1build1 [1002 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 tk8.6-dev amd64
8.6.12-1build1 [785 kB]
Fetched 1851 kB in 1s (2149 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libxft-dev:amd64.
(Reading database ... 318949 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libxft-dev_2.3.4-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libxft-dev:amd64 (2.3.4-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libxss-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libxss-dev_1%3a1.2.3-1build2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libxss-dev:amd64 (1:1.2.3-1build2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tcl8.6-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../tcl8.6-dev_8.6.12+dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tcl8.6-dev:amd64 (8.6.12+dfsg-1build1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tk8.6-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../tk8.6-dev_8.6.12-1build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tk8.6-dev:amd64 (8.6.12-1build1) ...
Setting up tcl8.6-dev:amd64 (8.6.12+dfsg-1build1) ...
Setting up libxss-dev:amd64 (1:1.2.3-1build2) ...
Setting up libxft-dev:amd64 (2.3.4-1) ...
Setting up tk8.6-dev:amd64 (8.6.12-1build1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...

Not entirely sure what to do now, since the tcl and tk are there.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Sincerely,
Erin

Erin Hodgess, PhD
mailto: erinm.hodgess using gmail.com

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