[R] Odd crash with tcl/tk

[Lars Dalby]

Hi Peter

Spot on! You where absolutely right. After installing the tcltk bits
it worked just fine.

Thank you very much!

Lars

On Aug 17, 4:36 pm, peter dalgaard <pda... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to chime in late (for some reason, I was not at the Mac when this came in originally).
>
> I can't reproduce the situation. One guess is that you haven't installed the tcltk bits, as indicated on thehttp://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx/page.
>
> -pd
>
> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Lars Dalby wrote:
>
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> > Hi
>
> > @ Andrew: Did you get this problem solved?
> > I am having similar problems and have tried to work around it using
> > options(gsubfn.engine = "R") as suggested by Gabor.
> > However, this don't solve on my machine. R just freezes up trying to
> > execute read.csv.sql()
>
> > On OSX 10.6.4, R 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 64bit
>
> > Any help is much appreciated!
>
> > Lars
>
> > On Jul 28, 9:41 pm, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi... at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM, AndrewPage <savejar... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi,
>
> >>> Recently, I've been trying to use packages in R that require loading the
> >>> Tcl/Tk interface.  However, I get a strange result and a crash that I
> >>> haven't been able to find discussion about on these boards (or any others).
>
> >>> When I enter library(tcltk), it reads "Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... ", but
> >>> then never says "done" or displays some sort of error message.  Looks like
> >>> this:
>
> >>>> x11()
> >>>> library(tcltk)
> >>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ...
>
> >>> Now you can type additional commands in, at your peril!  For example, if I
> >>> type in the text "library", nothing happens, but "library(" causes R to
> >>> freeze up irreparably, with "executing:
> >>> try(gsub('\\s+','',paste(capture.output(print(args(library)))),collapse=")) ,silent=TRUE)"
> >>> displayed at the bottom.  When this happens, there's nothing you can do but
> >>> restart R because it's completely frozen.
>
> >>> I'm running R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-07-27 r52627)
>
> >>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5603) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
> >>> with XQuartz 2.3.5 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple53)
>
> >>> on a mac (snow leopard)
>
> >>> Thanks for any help/suggestions in advance,
>
> >>> Andrew
>
> >> One thought is that if this is to use gsubfn or sqldf (which uses
> >> gsubfn) then you can get them to not use thetcltkcode but use R code
> >> instead by either of these two means:
>
> >> 1. issue the command:
> >> options(gsubfn.engine = "R")
> >> before issuing your library(sqldf) or library(gsubfn) command.  You
> >> can put the options command in your .Rprofile if you like and then you
> >> will have it on every session.
>
> >> or
>
> >> 2. use a build of R that has notcltkin it.  In that case it will
> >> recognize it and switch to using R.  I believe one such build exists
> >> for the Mac.
>
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