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

[Tom Callaway]

On 05/22/2012 10:36 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
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> On May 22, 2012, at 8:28 AM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
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>> 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!
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> Thanks to Peter for the clarifications. There was something about the combination of issues that was bugging me. Looking more closely now at the SQL statement being executed it becomes a bit more clear.
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> Taking a peek at the SRPMS for RHEL 5:
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>   http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
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> it would appear that tcl 8.4 is the latest version available. Checking RHEL 6, it would appear that tcl is 8.5 there so they did upgrade 6's tcl installation.
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> This suggests that you will need to go upstream if you want 8.5 on RHEL 5 to satisfy the need for the 'min' function and you may need to be cautious in mixing versions/dependencies, etc.

Does R need tcl 8.5 now?

~tom

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