[R] tcltk, tcltk2, Rcmdr, Mac OS X

[John Fox]

Dear Larry,

The tcltk package is part of the standard R distribution; it doesn't live on
CRAN, and should already be installed. Have you tried loading tcltk directly
-- library(tcltk)?

It's possible that you don't have X11 Tcl/Tk installed on your Mac. Take a
look at the Rcmdr installation notes for Macs, at
<http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>, if you
haven't already done so.

I hope this helps,
 John

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Hanser
> Sent: February-10-09 5:01 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] tcltk, tcltk2, Rcmdr, Mac OS X
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> When I try to install Rcmdr the following happens:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> > library(Rcmdr)
> Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class
=
> "tclObj") :
>   [tcl] invalid command name "font".
> 
> Error : .onAttach failed in 'attachNamespace'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Rcmdr'
> ----------------------------------
> 
> I wondered if this is because there is no "tcltk" package installed.  So I
> tried:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> > install.packages("tcltk")
> Warning in install.packages("tcltk") :
>   argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/hanser/Library/R/library'
> Warning message:
> package 'tcltk' is not available
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Is there in fact a tcltk package?  Has it been replaced by tcltk2?
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Larry
> 
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