Thank you both for your help.

1) I built from source because at the time I was trying to get a newer version 
of R than the one offered for Debian to get a package working. As far as I 
remember and you can guess I don't do that every other weekend...

2) there is a library called tcltk in R-home/library; however, in the R console, 
when I type require(tcltk), I get the following message.
~*~*~*
Loading required package: tcltk
Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : 
  Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
~*~*~*
I don't know why.  I have installed the r-base-dev, tcl-dev and tk-dev packages: 
still the same message with require('DiagnosisMed').

3) I do not understand what do you mean by installing  pre-built binaries. Are 
you referring to packages?

Thanks for helping users at the lower end of the spectrum.

Best,

David Biau.




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De : "xplaner800@comcast.net" <xplaner800@comcast.net>
À : Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

Envoyé le : Ven 19 novembre 2010, 3h 55min 39s
Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] intall tcl/tk


It wasn't clear to me whether he built from source or was using precompiled. 
Thought he may have built from source without tcltk (of course if that was the 
case, he would have to rebuild). Just trying to help.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd@debian.org>
To: "Patrick Richardson" <xplaner800@comcast.net>

Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:32:51 PM
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] intall tcl/tk


On 18 November 2010 at 20:40, Patrick Richardson wrote:
| David,
| 
| Do you have the tcltk package installed within R? i.e. 
| 
| install.packages("tcltk")

Gosh, exactly how low can we sink?

This is r-sig-debian. It's about Debian/Ubuntu package mangement with R.

tcltk is a __base package__ installed with R itself, eg r-base-core.

Dirk

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