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

[Ben]

Dear John,
i did follow the Rcmdr instructions for macosx, having no results  
though.
I am soon upgrading to 10.5 and hope i'll encounter no problems.
The silly thing however was that i had installed every file needed  
for rcmdr to run but apparently had no results.

Is there maybe some key point which is usually forgotten, more than  
what i have done (descripted below)?

Ben

p.s. i am also attaching Chiara to this email who is providing  
assistance to the research and is struggling with Rcmdr on her laptop.

Il giorno 02/dic/08, alle ore 16:05, John Fox ha scritto:

> 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 a mac.com>, who has  
> provided
> help before.
>
> Regards,
>  John
>
> ------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces a r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces a r- 
>> project.org]
> On
>> Behalf Of beniamino
>> Sent: December-02-08 7:25 AM
>> To: r-help a 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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