[BioC] unable to install qvalue..

[David Iles]

Hi Simon,

I have recently installed tcltk manually into R -  you can then get R to use tcltk automatically from wherever the software is installed. 

Download the latest tcltk tar.gz file from sourceforge (check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/) and unpack it, eg into the R library.

>From the R prompt, check out where R is looking for tcltk with 
> tclvalue("auto_path")

If where you have installed tcltk is missing from the list that appears, then add the path, for example:
> addTclPath("/Users/Library/R/2.12/library")

Hope that helps.

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 14:27, Simon Anders wrote:

> Hi David
> 
> On 02/21/2011 02:44 PM, David Iles wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, but I think, you misunderstood the issue.
> 
> The CRAN package 'tcltk' is a set of R binding for Tcl/Tk, i.e. a 
> package that allows you to use Tcl/Tk from within R. The issue is not 
> that Tcl/Tk itself vanished from CRAN; it was never available there and 
> users were always supposed to install Tcl/Tk on their system before 
> attempting to import the 'tckltk' R package, which, as I said, is only a 
> wrapper.
> 
> And this wrapper is what has vanished from CRAN, which is an issue, 
> because a large number of packages depend on it.
> 
>   Simon