[R] Still have problems with tcltk in R 64 bit

Peter Langfelder peter.langfelder at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 21:54:09 CEST 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Adrienne Wootten <amwootte at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Taking a quick look for it, it seems that they have replaced it with
> tcltk2.  I just did the installation with the same version in windows
> and it auto loaded the tcltk package and I never installed that
> package to begin with.  I would try it with tcltk2 and see if you get
> the package to install appropriately.  I'm not sure why tcltk isn't on
> CRAN anymore, it makes no sense not to have both tcltk and tcltk2, but
> here's hoping this helps you out.
>
> A

FWIF, tcltk still exists but is now part of the standard R
distribution ("core packages" is the term I think?) and as such is
installed automatically when you install R. Therefore it is not
available from CRAN.

Peter



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