[R-sig-Debian] tcltk

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 December 2008 at 10:02, Paul Gilbert wrote:
| > 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.)

No, sorry. As I said just yesterday, the purpose of r-base-dev is to
facilitate use of installed.packages() once R is up, and not for building R.

What you are after is provided (correctly) by Build-Depends: in the r-base
package.

You could

  a) either just install the r-base binaries as I suggested yesterday

  b) or at least take advantage of the Build-Deps via 
       sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

I am sorry if this is still confusing. We would all appreciate patches to the
README files if you can find a way to express this more clearly.

Hope this helps, Dirk

| 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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