Thanks for your prompt responses.  I will take a look at the R Installation
and Administration manual.  Where can I obtain the tcl-devel and tk-devel
files?

Thanks,
Mike

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>
>  This is covered in the "R Installation and Administration" manual.  You
>> need to specify the location of your tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh files.
>>
>
> And he will not have those.  He needs tcl-devel and tk-devel installed, and
> then (as this is a RedHat/Fedora system) the tclConfig.sh etc will be found
> by configure (for R, and for some of the packages).
>
> tcltk2 is mentioned. That need Tcl/Tk extensions that I have failed to get
> to work correctly with on F8: it is a path issue with where the Fedora
> packages install the extensions.
>
>
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>> Patrick Richardson
>> Biostatistician - Laboratory of Translational Medicine
>> Van Andel Research Institute
>> Grand Rapids, MI  49503
>> ph. 616-234-5787
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
>> On Behalf Of Michael Gormley
>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:29 PM
>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system
>>
>> trying to install the pbatR package, I was greeted with the error
>>
>> Error: package 'tcltk' does not have a name space
>> Execution halted
>>
>> Directly installing the package tcltk2 returned the following error:
>>
>> Loading required package: tcltk
>> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>>       Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>>
>> I have seen from previous posts that tcl/tk must be present when R is
>> installed.
>> I tried reinstalling R from source using
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>>
>> and although the installation went fine I received the same errors.
>>
>> Typing rpm -qa|grep tcl returns:
>> tclx-8.3.5-4
>> tcl-8.4.7-2
>> tcl-8.4.7-2
>>
>> Typing rpm -qa|grep tk returns:
>> gtkspell-2.0.7-2
>> atk-1.8.0-2
>> gtk+-1.2.10-33
>> gtk2-2.4.13-22
>> authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.3
>> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
>> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
>> tk-8.4.7-2
>> gtksourceview-1.1.0-4
>> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
>> tk-8.4.7-2
>> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
>> gtkglarea-1.2.2-16
>> gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7.el4
>> gtkhtml3-3.3.2-6.EL
>> usermode-gtk-1.74-1
>> atk-1.8.0-2
>> gtk2-2.4.13-22
>> pygtk2-libglade-2.4.0-1
>> gtk+-1.2.10-33
>> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
>> pygtk2-2.4.0-1
>>
>> So it seems that tcl and tk are present on the system.  I saw a post
>> suggesting that I may need some development packages?  What is a good
>> place
>> to find these packages?
>>
>> I am running R version 2.5.1 on a Linux machine running Redhat Enterprise
>> 3.
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you need any more info on the operating system and if there
>> are any ideas on how to resolve these issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael Gormley
>>
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