[Rd] Starting R Commander doesn't work (PR#13806)

[Uwe Ligges]

Peter Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:25 AM, <mb990434 at uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
>> Full_Name: Noyb
>> Version: 2.9.1
>> OS: Ubuntu 9.04
>> Submission from: (NULL) (141.53.34.152)
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I installed the GUI R Commander and tried to open it out of R by
>>
> Noyb,
> 
> It looks like your new to R, welcome to the community.  A couple quick
> notes, first the bug reporting system for the R community is
> specifically for bugs only, not support issues.  The developers of R
> are quite strict about this.  It looks that you've filed a couple of
> bug reports, whereas a better place to send such queries would be
> R-help.  Second, R Commander, is an add on package, so questions
> regarding it's use should be directed to the appropriate email list (I
> don't know it, because I don't use R commander.)  The bug tracker, and
> the developer list that bugs are sent to, are for core R issues.
> 
> As an R newbie I think you'll find the following sites helpful
> <http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html>,
> <http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php>, and
> <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html>
> 
>>> library("Rcmdr").
>> The following message occurred:
>> "Lade nötiges Paket: tcltk
>> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>>  Tcl/Tk auf diesem System nicht verfügbar
>> Fehler: Paket 'tcltk' konnte nicht geladen werden"
>>
>> (in English: Load needed package: tcltk
>>             Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>>             Tcl/Tk not available on this system
>>             Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded).
>>
>> I'd like to use the GUI instead of working from the shell, so how do I get it to
>> run?
> 
> I'm guessing that the tcltk package isn't available because it hasn't
> been installed yet.  Something similar to install.packages("tcltk")
> ought to do the trick.  type ?install.packages at an R prompt for more
> info.


Actually, tcltk is installed with R given the required support libraries 
are installed on your system. If not, you got a warning when saying 
./configure, I guess.

Best wishes,
Uwe


> HTH
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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