[R-sig-Debian] tcltk

[Paul Gilbert]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 29 December 2008 at 20:44, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> | (Another question about my incomplete configuration.)
> | 
> | I thought I had everything working with my Ubuntu 8.10 64bit, but I 
> | still seem to be missing tcl/tk:
> | 
> |  > require("tcltk")
> | Loading required package: tcltk
> | Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> |    Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> | 
> | 
> | Synaptic shows tcl and tk both installed, and I have r-base and 
> | r-base-dev installed.  How do I find what is missing?
> 
> Did you build R by hand?

Yes, I built from the tarball (./configure ; make ).

To answer my own question, building requires the header files in tcl-dev 
and tk-dev.  The fact that they were missing was buried in the output of 
  configure.  Perhaps tcl-dev and tk-dev should be dependencies in 
r-base-dev? (Or perhaps they are and it is still just me getting an old 
version.)

Paul

   The prebuild packages have working tcltk:
> 
> deddelbuettel at ....:~$ echo "capabilities()"|R --slave
>     jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
> 
> amd64, Ubuntu intrepid, Ubuntu R binaries from CRAN.
> 
> Dirk 
> 
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