[Rd] tkrplot not working in R 2.13.0

[Greg Snow]

It looks like the spaces in the path is the problem, when I run the line below with shQuote then everything starts working and all is right with the world again.

Thanks,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:35 AM
> To: Greg Snow
> Cc: R Devel List
> Subject: Re: [Rd] tkrplot not working in R 2.13.0
> 
> What example are you trying? The code in ?trkplot works for me.
> 
> However, it looks to me like that piece of advice in the rw-FAQ about
> no spaces in your path has come back to bite you (I of course do not
> have such spaces).  I think this should be
> 
> .Tcl(paste("load", shQuote(file), "Rplot"))
> 
> or some such.
> 
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Greg Snow wrote:
> 
> > The tkrplot package is not working in version 2.13.0 for windows.  I
> contacted the maintainer who unfortunately does not have easy access to
> a windows computer and says that it is working on the other platforms.
> >
> > I traced the problem down to the line in the .First.lib function:
> >
> > .Tcl(paste("load", file, "Rplot"))
> >
> > With file being "C:/Program Files/R/R-
> 2.13.0/library/tkrplot/libs/i386/tkrplot.dll" on my system.  I did
> check that the file exists and it can even be loaded using dyn.load,
> but when running the .Tcl command by hand it produces the following
> error:
> >
> > Error in structure(.External("dotTcl", ..., PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class
> = "tclObj") :
> >  [tcl] could not find interpreter "Rplot".
> >
> > It works in previous versions of R, so I am guessing that this is
> > due to some change in R, or the tcl with R 2.13.0, or how tkrplot
> > was compiled under the new R, or possibly something else.
> >
> > Does anyone else have any insights?
> >
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
> methods
> > [8] base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] TeachingDemos_2.7 tkrplot_0.0-19
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.13.0
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> > Statistical Data Center
> > Intermountain Healthcare
> > greg.snow at imail.org
> > 801.408.8111
> >
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