At least in R 2.12, tcltk package source is in src/library of the source R
distribution.  There is no need to distribute it at CRAN AFAICT.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Simon Anders <anders@embl.de> 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
>
>
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