[R] R can't find tcl-tk

[peter dalgaard]

> On 11 Mar 2015, at 20:05 , MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> What is the result of
> 
>   capabilities()['tcltk']
> 
> ?

- and did the configure actually succeed, tcl-wise? Should be near the end of the output in, like

  Interfaces supported:      X11, aqua, tcltk

Also notice that if you run R on a remote connection, you may need some trickery to get an X server that the Tk parts can connect to (SSH tunnels and such.). 

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> On 3/9/15, 2:27 PM, "Imran Akbar" <imran at infoscoutinc.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've installed the latest version of R from source on Amazon Linux with
>> the
>> following config flags:
>> ./configure --with-tcl-config=/opt/ActiveTcl-8.6/lib/tclConfig.sh
>> --with-tk-config=/opt/ActiveTcl-8.6/lib/tkConfig.sh
>> 
>> After running make and make install, I try to run R and install the
>> 'anesrake' package, but one of the dependencies fails with this error:
>> 
>> error: Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>> 
>> How can I fix this?
>> 
>> regards,
>> imran
>> 
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