[R] Problem with tcl/tk and Rcmdr - urgent help required

[John Fox]

Dear Ben,

It seems clear that the problem is in loading the tcltk package. To confirm
that, does library(tcltk) fail?

I'm not very knowledgeable about Mac OS X. I do have a MacBook, with OS X
10.5, however, and encountered no problems installing and running the Rcmdr
package. Have you seen the R Commander installation instructions for Mac OS
X 10.4, at
<http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>? If
not, maybe something there will help.

I'm copying this response to Rob Goedman <goedman at mac.com>, who has provided
help before.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


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> Sent: December-02-08 7:25 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Problem with tcl/tk and Rcmdr - urgent help required
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> i have been searching the whole day, trying ANY solution offered by the
> internet and before headbanging against the wall would like to try asking
> for your help.
> 
> As many others, i am haveing problems loading the Rcmdr package with
Macbook
> running Tiger 10.4.11. X11 version updated to the last one after having
> manually installed.
> 
> I have also installed (obviously) the Rcmdr package with all dependencies.
> 
> However (damn) i keep having the following answer to the library (rcmdr)
> command:
> 
> > library (Rcmdr)
> Carico il pacchetto richiesto: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath,
...)
> :
>   impossibile caricare libreria condivisa
>
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i
3
> 86/tcltk.so':
> 
>
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/library/tcltk/
l
> ibs/i386/tcltk.so,
> 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib
>   Referenced from:
>
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i3
8
> 6/tcltk.so
>   Reason: image not found
> Error : .onLoad non riuscito in 'loadNamespace' per tcltk
> Errore: pacchetto 'tcltk' non caricato
> 
> The language is in italian but it basically says it cannot load shared
> library.
> 
> x11 is running, the file tcltk.so phisically exists (i have checked
myself)
> and both R and X11 are in their last updated version.
> 
> I have also tried restarting after updating X11. Can someone try to help
me?
> i have recently swithced to mac and am having an important exam soon.
> 
> Thanks to anyone.
> 
> Ben
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