[R] R-2.2.1-INSTALL Issue with TCLTK

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Bhola, Gautam" <Gautam.Bhola at pfizer.com> writes:

> I haven't seen any updates/suggestions on this topic, so just
> wondering??

As far as I can see, the ball is on your half, so why are you
expecting any? Did you do as Brian suggested?
 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:20 PM
> To: Bhola, Gautam
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] R-2.2.1-INSTALL Issue with TCLTK
> 
> Those don't look like valid paths to config files to me.  On FC3 they 
> would be
> 
> /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh
> /usr/lib/tkConfig.sh
> 
> So even if you have users tcl-8.4.12 and tk-8.4.12 (do you?), your paths
> 
> are almost surely not to config files.
> 
> Configure reports what works, including that it is not going to build 
> tcl/tk support.  Look back at the relevant parts of its output.
> 
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Bhola, Gautam wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not able to have a working tcltk library in R-2.2.1 inspite of
> > trying different options suggested in the FAQ's. I am using the
> > following configure option and I do get the tcltk package installed
> but
> > with a missing libs folder.
> >
> >
> >
> > ./configure -prefix= "~R-2.2.1"  --enable-R-shlib --enable-linux-lfs
> > --with-zlib --with-gnu-ld --with-tcltk
> > --with-tcl-config="~tcl-8.4.12/lib" --with-tk-config="~tk-8.4.12/lib"
> >
> >
> >
> > I have ensured that I have a valid tclsh in my path and have even
> > provided the include path for covering the tcl.h
> >
> >
> >
> > Operating system: RHEL
> >
> >
> >
> > The error I get while trying to invoke the libarary for tcltk is:
> >
> >
> >
> > Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> >
> > Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> >
> > Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
> >
> > Execution halted
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help to identify the cause is highly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Respectfully
> >
> > Gautam
> >
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