[R] TclTk library loading (whole version) Linux

[Peter Dalgaard]

javier garcia-pintado <jgarcia at ija.csic.es> writes:

> Hello;
> 
> Well, I'm afraid this is the second related problem I report in two days
> (I'm sorry for this)
> 
> I've programmed a tcltk interface for a model and it includes a
> comboBox. The comboBox widget comes with the "BWidgets" library of Tcl/Tk.
> 
>  It works all perfectly with the windows R GUI (with the help of Prof.
> B. Ripley), following the advices in ?Startup, but I would like that it
> also could work under Linux. I've got a complete TclTk8.4 installed and
> also BWidgets, and I could swear that the complete Tcl libraries could
> be loaded at least once, because I saw a message like "Tcl 1.7" or
> similar under R.
> 
> Now I don't receive the message anymore and it cannot find BWidgets
> under R. So I'm not even sure that I'm loading the whole tclTk Library
> anymore(instead of the subset that comes along with R)
> 
> I've got libtcl8.4.so and libtk8.4.so in /usr/lib
> My .Renviron file contains:
> 
> MY_TCLTK=yes
> TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
> 
> an in my R session:
> ------------------------------
> > Sys.getenv("MY_TCLTK")
> MY_TCLTK
>    "yes"
> > Sys.getenv("TCL_LIBRARY")
>       TCL_LIBRARY
> "/usr/lib/tcl8.4"
> > tclRequire("BWidgets")
> [1] FALSE
> Warning message:
> Tcl package 'BWidgets' not found in: tclRequire("BWidgets")
> ---------------------------------
> 
> Please, some how uses BWidgets could tell if I'm doing something wrong
> in these steps? I've just installed ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics), could
> this be a source of problem?
> 
> Thanks to all, and best regards
> 
> Javier

Another Javier (pez-de-Lacalle) has been messing with similar issues
for the "uroot" package it seems. There is some stuff in the README file
that might be useful. He has  tclRequire("BWidget") (no "s")...

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