[R-SIG-Mac] Trouble installing g77 3.4.2 and tcltk packages in 2.1.1

[Federico Calboli]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 12:18 -0400, Oscar A. Moreno wrote:
> I have installed the latest and greatest if R for Mac OSX.  Thanks for a
> great job.
> 
> Now the nuances.  After I installed R.pkg in my G5 with MacOS 10.3.9, I
> tried to install g77.pkg (g77 3.4.2) and tcltk.pkg.  The installer for these
> packages reported "there were errors in the installation" "try installing
> again".  I did as instructed to NO avail.  Does anyone have any clue of why
> this is happening?

I suspect this is bug of the g77 dmg that has been reported  here (and
solved) before; I would not know about tcl/tk.

Try, form command line to install the g77 package with sudo:

sudo installer -pkg g77.pkg target / [double check on the list archives]

> Also, when running R.app, I get in the console the following error when
> clicking the R-Help option from menu bar.  The help menu appears and in the
> console:

not a clue for that, sorry.

Federico
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