[R] Where is the tcltk package?

[Rolf Turner]

On 08/04/11 13:23, Erik Iverson wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 07:55 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 08/04/11 12:40, Erik Iverson wrote:
>>> On 04/07/2011 07:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>> On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote:
>>>>> Rolf,
>>>>>
>>>>> What does
>>>>>
>>>>>> capabilities("tcltk")
>>>>> return?
>>>> FALSE
>>> I believe R needs to be compiled with tcltk support for the package to work. Do
>>> you compile your own version or use a package manager (e.g., on Ubuntu)? If you
>>> have TCL/TK installed in a "standard" location, all should be well I think.
>> I installed R from source; couldn't figure out how to get a Ubuntu binary.
>> I forget the details (it was a while ago) but nothing seemed to work.
>>
>> I think I have the tcl/tk stuff in a ``standard location'':
> <snip>
>
>>> On my Ubuntu machine, I have both the "tcl" and the "tk" packages installed
>>> through Synaptic (the package manager).
>> I don't grok ``Synaptic''. I have installed various stuff using
>> ``sudo apt-get install ....'' --- that's about as far as my capabilities extend.
> Synaptic is just a front end to "sudo apt-get" type installs, so same thing. You
> probably need the tcl-dev and tk-dev (or similarly named) for your version of
> tcltk to compile.  Those contain the development headers needed to compile
> programs against the tcltk library.  You can look in the config.log file created
> by the R "configure" process and grep for "tcl" to see what might have gone
> wrong, but my guess is tcl.h or something like that couldn't be found.
>
> So once you install those dev packages, you could rebuild R and check that tcltk
> will work, the results of "configure" should tell you that before you even compile.
     So how the <expletive deleted> do I ``install those dev packages''?
> Or just install the Ubuntu packages per:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> assuming that's your distro.
>
     I don't follow this; went to that URL; nothing there about tcltk.

         cheers,

             Rolf Turner