[Rd] Link R with Tcl 8.6 on Windows

[Karim Mezhoud]

Hi,
I Think you can install devel version by:

 devtools::install_github("tcltk/tcl")

from this link https://github.com/tcltk/tcl

Karim



On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Adrian Waddell <adrian at waddell.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am working on an R package intended for CRAN that requires Tcl version
> 8.6 because of the TclOO tcl extension and the -angle option for canvas
> text items.
>
> R for Windows currently still ships with Tcl 8.5. Does anyone have
> experience with linking R under Windows to a Tcl interpreter of version 8.6?
>
> When I link R 3.2.2 (installed from the binary on Windows 8) to a custom
> Tcl installation of version 8.6 (e.g. from ActiveState for both 32bit or
> 64bit) using the MY_TCLTK environment variable, then loading the tcltk
> package will result with a tk85.dll not found error. This problem can be
> “fixed” by copying and renaming the tk86.dll and the tcl86.dll files in the
> bin folder of the activetcl installation to tk85.dll and tcl85.dll.
>
> However, this setup does not work well for me; sometimes, when creating a
> number of involved toplevel windows at once, some of them are not created
> properly and are left completely unresponsive, see the attached image. I
> have not managed to create a small contained example so far. But I can
> share my code, if necessary.
>
> Is there a reason that under Windows R looks for the tk85.dll in
> particular, effectively forcing the Tcl version to 8.5? Also, does anyone
> know a remedy to this gui error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian Waddell
>
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> Running under: Windows 8 x64 (build 9200)
>
> locale:
>     [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
>     [1] tools     tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils
>  datasets
> [8] methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>     [1] loon_0.8.4.4
>
>
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