[Rd] tkrplot not working in R 2.13.0

[Greg Snow]

That works as well, I will suggest it to Luke for the package to use.

Thanks,

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pdalgd at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:43 AM
> To: Greg Snow
> Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; R Devel List
> Subject: Re: [Rd] tkrplot not working in R 2.13.0
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2011, at 19:26 , Greg Snow wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Just for fun, see if it also works with
> 
> tcl("load", file, "Rplot")
> 
> (.Tcl(paste(....)) is just *so* turn of the millennium, and
> particularly vulnerable to "quoting hell" effects.)
> 
> 
> >
> > 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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> >>
> >> --
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