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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.06.2011 22:01, Arnaud Mosnier wrote:
> I achieve to make tcltk work on R 64 installing Active tcltk8.5 64bit
> version then setting windows environment variables as in
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/tcltk/InstallRTclTk.html.

Don't read outdated sources but the manuals.

The R binary distribution comes with tcltk under Windows (in 
${R_HOME}/tcl) for both 32-bit and 64-bit and will user a different tcl 
if you set environment variables.

Hence the easiest thing is just to tell R not to use your otehrwise set 
environment variabes and use its own tcl version.

Uwe Ligges



> But now, it uses only this 64 bit version and thus do not work anymore
> in R 32 bit !
>
> In my case, it solves my problem as I will probably use only R 64bit
> but I do not like to end with an half solution.
>
> Arnaud
>
> 2011/6/14 Peter Langfelder<peter.langfelder at gmail.com>:
>> 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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