[R] tcltk problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Dina Said wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using fedora core 3. I downloaded R and installed it.
> After that, I invoked R by the root user and write the
> command install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies=TRUE). This
> command installs Rcmdr automatically. However, whenever I
> type library(Rcmdr), it tells me that Loading required
> package: tcltk Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>         Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
>
>
> tcl and tk are installed on my system
>
> The problem is that R can't find them as I guess

It is most likely that tcl and tk are installed, but tcl-devel and 
tk-devel are not.  See the 'R Installation and Administation' manual. 
Please install these RPMs if necessary, then re-install R, keeping a note 
of the output from configure.

(As far as I know this cannot happen if you installed the RPM, so am 
assuming that you built R from the sources: you omitted to tell us.)

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