[R-sig-Fedora] tcktk problem with custom R 2.15.0 build on RHEL5

[Bruce Pennypacker]

On 5/22/12 2:56 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> As I read the error message, Tcl as such is working fine. However, the 
> min function seems to be new in Tcl 8.5, and it is unclear which 
> version is in RH 5.6. There's certainly no Tcl 8.14.3. 
> (library(tcltk); tcl("info", "tclversion") will tell you which one is 
> really loaded.) Google suggests that in earlier versions, there was an 
> add-on called "TclX" that defined min and max functions (among other 
> things, I presume). If it is in RH5.6, I would guess that you could 
> load it with tclRequire("TclX") (or however it might be capiTaLized) 
> before trying to do anything with sqldf().
Ahh, thanks for the pointers.  Yes, I screwed up the version number of 
tcltk.  It's 8.4.13, not 8.14.3...  And I do see a separate tclx package 
in the RHEL5 repo, but after installing it and it's companion -devel 
package I'm still getting the same unknown function error.  Given that 
this is likely new in Tcl 8.5 I may just bite the bullet and install 
that then rebuild R.  But in any event you've given me some good 
information to hopefully get me in the right direction.  Thanks!

-Bruce