[R-sig-Debian] installing tkrplot

[Mark Leeds]

All of a sudden, I had the brilliant idea to google and the command below
solved the problem. My apologies for noise.

sudo apt-get install tk-dev


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:06 PM Mark Leeds <markleeds2 using gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi All: At the bottom of this email  is my sessionInfo and below that
> there is a command
> that shows that tcltk is installed and working. My problem is that,  when
> trying to install tkrplot,
> I get the following  error:
>
> R CMD INSTALL -l . tkrplot_0.0-24.tar.gz
>
> * installing *source* package 'tkrplot' ...
> ** package 'tkrplot' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/tcl8.6
> -I/usr/include/tcl8.6     -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c tcltkimg.c -o tcltkimg.o
> tcltkimg.c:3:16: fatal error: tk.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <tk.h>
>                 ^
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [tcltkimg.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'tkrplot'
> * removing '/home/markleeds/research/R/Rlibs/library/tkrplot'
> * restoring previous '/home/markleeds/research/R/Rlibs/library/tkrplot'
> :~/research/R/Rlibs/library>
>
> Clearly, I must be missing the tk.h file but I don't know where to get it
> nor where to put
> it. Thanks a lot.
>
> #=============================================================
> MY SESSION INFO IS BELOW AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT, I SHOW THAT
> THE tcltk PACKAGE IS WORKING.
> #=================================================================
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas/libblas.so.3.0
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.0
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=C                  LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tcltk     stats     graphics  utils     datasets  grDevices methods
> base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.1
>
> BELOW SHOWS THAT tcltk IS WORKING.
>
> > library(tcltk)
> > tcl("info", "tclversion")
> <Tcl> 8.6
> >
>

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