[BioC] unable to install qvalue..

[David Iles]

Hi Simon,

Check out this URL.

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/

Various tcltk widgets are also available from http://sourceforge.net/. Use the search engine to locate tools such as BWidget, tcllib, tcltable etcetc.

Dave

Dr David Iles
Institute for Integrative and Comparative Biology
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

d.e.iles at leeds.ac.uk




On 21 Feb 2011, at 13:24, Simon Anders wrote:

> Hi Martin, Saurabh, John
> 
> On 02/21/2011 01:57 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
>> On 02/21/2011 04:36 AM, Saurabh Bundela wrote:
>>> I am trying to install qvalue, however its giving installation error  ->
>>> Error : package 'tcltk' does not have a name space
> 
>> probably one or more of your packages are out of date. Try
> 
> I also had problems with qvalue, and there is indeed something seriously 
> wrong:
> 
> The current version of 'qvalue' (v1.24.0 on CRAN, last changed 
> 2010-10-26) depends on 'tcltk'.
> 
> Now, if you look at CRAN's tcltk page, you get this here:
> 
> "Package ‘tcltk’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive."
> 
> When did that happen? In October, it obviously was still around. The 
> archive only lists a really old initial version. Could it be that the 
> CRAN people deleted it accidentally?
> 
> The 'tcltk2' package that the OP mentioned seems, by the way, not be a 
> replacement of 'tcltk' but an add-on. It also lists 'tcltk' lists as one 
> of its dependencies.
> 
> 
> A completely different question is why qvalue depends on tcltk. Does 
> anybody actually use its GUI interface. To John Storey (CC'ed): What 
> about moving this out of the package, or making it optional? (I.e., 
> remove the dependency on tcltk from the DESCRIPTION file and instead try 
> to load tcltk only if somebody calls the GUI function.)
> 
> Cheers
>   Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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