[R] Ubuntu tcl/tk problems

[stephen sefick]

I used the archives, but I didn't use the FAQs.  I removed the
compiled version- and all other R versions.  I reinstalled through the
repository, and everything works fine.  Sorry for the inconvenience.
regards,

Stephen

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 30 November 2009 at 15:12, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> | stephen sefick wrote:
> | > Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> | >   Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> | > Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
> | >
> | > Ubuntu 9.10
> | > I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries
> | > installed.  I need both of these because some of my GIS software
> | > requires the 8.4 libraries.  Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ...
> | >
> | > All help is greatly appreciated!
>
> a) This is a very much a FAQ. Learn to use the archives, and Google.
>
> b) You need the -dev packages for compiling. You probably only have the
>   run-time packages for tcl and tk 8.4 and 8.5. Install the matching -dev
>   packages.
>
> c) You seem to have recompiled R yourself. Why? CRAN has current versions
>   of R 2.10.0 for Ubuntu at cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu -- why not
>   use it?
>
> d) This is a question for r-sig-debian.
>
> | > regards,
> | >
> |
> | Is this "stock R" or one you compiled yourself? What does capabilities()
> | say about tcltk?
> |
> | I don't use Ubuntu, and it is a bit hard to know what kinds of messes
> | distibution maintainers might cook up, but if capabilities() claims that
>
> e) Few for Debian and Ubuntu. And the ones we learn about, we fix. The
>   shipped version of R has:
>
>   R> capabilities()
>       jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp
>       TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
>    sockets   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem
>       TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>      cairo
>       TRUE
>   R>
>
>   To use Peter's colourful language: This appears to be a something the
>   user 'cooked up' himself.
>
> Dirk
>
> | tcltk should work, then I might take a look at
> |
> | ldd /usr/lib64/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
> |
> | or whatever the counterpart is on your system. And also check that
> | you're not accidentally setting things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the wrong
> | thing in your shell environment.
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-- 
Stephen Sefick

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis