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

[Philippe Grosjean]

Thank you. I preferred to upgrade to Hardy. Note that I had to eliminate 
tcl8.5 (the upgrade left the old version) and then to make:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tcl8.5
sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-dev  <- this one is apprently required, and!
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
sudo apt-get install r-base-html

and then, R running well with tcl/tk 8.5.
Many thanks for your help.

Philippe


Vincent Goulet wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Michael A. Rutter
>> School of Science
>> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
>> Station Road
>> Erie, PA 16563
>> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
> 
>