[R] tclk, tcltk

Jean Eid jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 12 16:58:43 CEST 2004


Thanks to Brian. I was looking everywhere except the typo. I guess the
previous build (1.9.1) ignored the dependece error.

Thanks again,

jean

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> What is package `tclk'?  I think you have a typo somewhere in your code.
> At a guess you have
>
> Depends: tclk
>
> in a DESCRIPTION file for one of your packages.
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Jean Eid wrote:
>
> > I have been having problems with these two 'libraries' since I installed
> > 2.0.0.
> > I have built a package with couple of functions so that I can load it at
> > startup every time R is booted. The problem is that I have the following
> > error every time I call the library
> >
> > Loading required package: tclk
> > Error: package 'tclk' could not be loaded
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > There is no package called 'tclk' in: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
> >
> >
> > However I can load tcltk library now (thanks to Dirk for helping me with
> > this). I can load the functions I have in the library and everything works
> > fine.
> >
> > I cannot find any information on this except the following thread which
> > was not resolved.
> > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/01/0410.html
>
> It was resolved, and in any case it was about installing 64-bit Tcl/Tk on
> Solaris, something that was (and is) covered in the R Installation manual.
>
> > Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated.
> >
> > P.S. what is the difference between tclk and tcltk? and why calling the
> > installed library is requiring tclk? I just made up a dummy package with a
> > function
> >
> > fun<-function(x) x^2
> >
> > just to test and the same thing happens (Loading required package: tclk
> > ...).
> >
> > This is on a Linux debian unstable with the kernel  2.4.20-bf2.4-xfs
>
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