[ESS] ESS, install.packages() in R, and Windows

Stephen Eglen S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Mon Dec 19 14:54:27 CET 2005


 > No. It works without loading tcltk, or any other work-around for that
 > matter, in both the terminal (rterm.exe) and GUI (rgui.exe) versions of R
 > for Windows.

This is odd. Is this a problem new to 5.2.11 or to older ESS too?

A workaround for now could be to change inferior-S-language-start
so that it also sends the command to load the tcltk package, but I'm
not sure about that.

Can other windows users repeat this?

Stephen




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