[R] tcltk package under Windows

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 6 Nov 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> "Schwarz, Paul" <paul.schwarz at oregonstate.edu> writes:
>
> > Based on reading the Windows FAQ and searching the list archives, I
> > gather that in the past, Active Tcl 8.3.x has been required in order to
> > use the tcltk package under R for Windows.  Apparently Active Tcl 8.4.1
> > is now stable, and I was wondering whether this newer release of Tcl can
> > be used with R under Windows?  I've not used Tcl/Tk before but I am
> > considering using it for some applications.
>
> For 1.6.1 we require 8.3.x. We think we know what to do to get it to
> work with 8.4, but found out too shortly before the release to risk
> putting it in. So the binaries will want to see 8.3.

And the binaries will work with only one version, and as this is a patch
release we would not change the required version: upgrading to a patch
release should not require users to re-install a new version of Tcl/Tk.

This *is* explicitly stated in the rw-FAQ!

(Also, 8.4.1 came out during the freeze period for R 1.6.1, and 8.4.0
was not stable enough.)

If you build the R-devel version of R (moving towards 1.7.0) you can
configure it to use 8.3.x or 8.4.1, and the latter works.  We will decide
nearer the time whether the binary for 1.7.0 uses 8.3.x or 8.4.x.

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