[R] Why can't I make use of tcltk in this installation?

[p_connolly]

Hello Albrecht.

I didn't specify those paths on the 3 machines that have tcltk 
available.  It appears that those files are not on the machine in 
question and that is the reason for my problem.  But if they are, 
./configure finds them itself.

I'm not at the machine that has the issue, but I assume that since I get 
this on a machine that does work:

> dpkg -S tkConfig.sh
tk8.6-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh
tk8.6-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh
tk-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tkConfig.sh
tk-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/tkConfig.sh

I need to install those two packages (and the corresponding ones for 
tcl) and reinstall R.

Thanks for the pointer, and thank you pd for drawing my attention to the 
fact that Tcl and Tk need to be done separately.




On 2018-09-10 22:37, Albrecht Kauffmann wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> did you give the compiler path instructions to tclConfig.sh and 
> tkConfig.sh , as
> 
> ../R-3.5.1/configure  --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib64/tclConfig.sh
> --with-tk-config=/usr/lib64/tkConfig.sh
> 
> ?
> 
> Best,
> Albrecht
> 
> --
>   Albrecht Kauffmann
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> Am Mo, 10. Sep 2018, um 10:54, schrieb Patrick Connolly:
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>> 
>> Matrix products: default
>> BLAS: /home/pat/local/R-3.5.0/lib/libRblas.so
>> LAPACK: /home/pat/local/R-3.5.0/lib/libRlapack.so
>> 
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] utils     stats     grDevices graphics  methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] lattice_0.20-35
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.17     dplyr_0.7.6      assertthat_0.2.0 grid_3.5.0
>>  [5] R6_2.2.2         magrittr_1.5     pillar_1.2.3     rlang_0.2.1
>>  [9] bindrcpp_0.2.2   tools_3.5.0      glue_1.2.0       purrr_0.2.5
>> [13] compiler_3.5.0   pkgconfig_2.0.1  bindr_0.1.1      
>> tidyselect_0.2.4
>> [17] tibble_1.4.2
>> > capabilities()
>>        jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        
>> aqua
>>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE        TRUE       
>> FALSE
>>    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       
>> iconv
>>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE        
>> TRUE
>>         NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     
>> libcurl
>>        TRUE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        
>> TRUE
>> >
>> 
>> If I try to load tcltk, no surprise...
>> 
>> > require(tcltk)
>> Loading required package: tcltk
>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tcltk’:
>>  .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details:
>>   call: fun(libname, pkgname)
>>   error: Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>> Warning message:
>> S3 methods ‘as.character.tclObj’, ‘as.character.tclVar’,
>> ‘as.double.tclObj’, ‘as.integer.tclObj’, ‘as.logical.tclObj’,
>> ‘as.raw.tclObj’, ‘print.tclObj’, ‘[[.tclArray’, ‘[[<-.tclArray’,
>> ‘$.tclArray’, ‘$<-.tclArray’, ‘names.tclArray’, ‘names<-.tclArray’,
>> ‘length.tclArray’, ‘length<-.tclArray’, ‘tclObj.tclVar’,
>> ‘tclObj<-.tclVar’, ‘tclvalue.default’, ‘tclvalue.tclObj’,
>> ‘tclvalue.tclVar’, ‘tclvalue<-.default’, ‘tclvalue<-.tclVar’,
>> ‘close.tkProgressBar’ were declared in NAMESPACE but not found
>> >
>> 
>> The question is:  What do I have to do to get Tcl/Tk support?
>> From the bash prompt:
>>  > aptitude search tcltk
>> p   hfsutils-tcltk             - Tcl/Tk interfaces for reading and
>> writing Macintosh volumes
>> p   hfsutils-tcltk:i386        - Tcl/Tk interfaces for reading and
>> writing Macintosh volumes
>> p   libtcltk-ruby              - Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby
>> p   libtcltk-ruby1.9.1         - Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby 1.9.1
>> p   libtcltk-ruby1.9.1:i386    - Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby 1.9.1
>> p   r-cran-tcltk2              - GNU R package for Tcl/Tk additions
>> p   ruby2.0-tcltk              - Ruby/Tk for Ruby 2.0
>> p   ruby2.0-tcltk:i386         - Ruby/Tk for Ruby 2.0
>> 
>> That's the same as what I get on another computer on which tcktl is
>> available, so it didn't surprise me when installing the r-cran-tcktl
>> package didn't help.
>> 
>> Where else should I be looking for a difference?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> 
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