[Rd] Mac and tcltk

[Marc Schwartz]

On May 15, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Does the Mac version of R include tcltk?   There is a section in the  
> R Mac FAQ:
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#TclTk-issues
> about tcltk issues on R for Mac but its not clear to me from this
> whether tcltk is
> or is not included and I don't have a Mac to try it out.


Gabor, the full universal binary disk image (.dmg) does include tcl/tk  
if the user installs R that way. The 'mini' image does not, so would  
require the user to install tcl/tk separately.

More info here:

   http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

Supplemental tools for OSX, including tcl/tk, are available from:

   http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

One can of course also build from source code on OSX, which is what I  
do. More information on that approach is at:

   http://r.research.att.com/building.html

and

   http://r.research.att.com/tools/


HTH,

Marc Schwartz