[R-sig-Debian] R 2.7.2 and Ubuntu / tcltk issues

[Vincent Goulet]

Le lun. 6 oct. à 10:33, Michael Rutter a écrit :

> Philippe,
>
> The solution (I hope) to your problem is to enable the hardy- 
> backports in your package manager.

Just to confirm and clarify (since Philippe is on Gutsy, not Hardy).

Indeed, R 2.7.2 on Gutsy depends on Tcl/Tk 8.5 that is obtained from  
the backports repositories.

> For instructions on how to do that,
> check this link:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
>
> If that doesn't solve the problem, we will investigate further.  We  
> mention this on the ubuntu cran pages, but we may need to highlight  
> that portion of the instructions.

I added a note to this effect. The new README is on its way to CRAN now.

Vincent

>
>
> As for your recent lattice problem, not sure what is causing that.  
> Maybe Vincent has some insight.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Michael
>
> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> Philippe,
>> Thanks for the bug report to r-help. In the future, please consider
>> r-sig-debian which is much more on topic and much more likely to be  
>> read
>> attentively by the three of us.
>> Vincent/Michael,
>> Could you have a look?  'library(tclrk)' does fail for me too at  
>> work (using
>> 2.7.2. on ubunut) but I am currently using the Cygwin X11  
>> connection and
>> having all sorts of issues with that.  We did test this post tlc/tk  
>> 8.5
>> switch as I recall all/some of us commenting on how much prettier  
>> the new 8.5
>> 'themed' widgets look. I did run at least one or two demos().
>> Also, I tossed up 2.8.0 beta as of today into Debian unstable  
>> before I left
>> for work. I don't think you need to release that to Ubuntu yet, but  
>> you may
>> just want to build once or twice before Oct 20 so that we get all  
>> surprises
>> out of the way. Or so the theory goes...
>> Cheers, Dirk
>
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