[R] R tcl/tk

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, JeeBee wrote:

> Try:
>  R.home()
>
> This is the directory in which R is installed,
> for me R_HOME is /usr/lib/R.
> I don't have a /usr/lib/R/Tcl/doc though, perhaps you do ...
> I do have a /usr/lib/R/doc, but there's no Tcl inside there either.

Alberto Monteiro was quoting Windows-specific documentation without 
telling us (and his instructions were not reproducible even on Windows).
(So quite a lot was 'missing here' in his own post.)

> For Tcl documentation I can suggest wiki.tcl.tk, it's a great site. Then,
> you need to learn the interface between R and Tcl for which there's a nice
> (easy to find with Google) pdf document. If you really cannot find it,
> I'll look it up for you.
>
> JeeBee.
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:11:40 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
>>
>> This must be dumbest question ever asked, but...
>>
>> When I ask help.search("tcltk"), I get a reference to tcltk-package.
>>
>> When I ask help("tcltk-package"), I get "rtfm(s) in 'R_HOME/Tcl/doc'".
>>
>> But then when I ask help.search("R_HOME"), I get nothing.
>>
>> Is something missing here in those help pages?
>>
>> Alberto Monteiro
>>
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