[R-SIG-Mac]R-devel (new version with native tcltk)

[Jan de Leeuw]

See

ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub

There you will find R-devel.tar.gz and MacOSXTk8.4a4-2.tar.gz.
The tcl/tk in the last file is native and the tcltk package in R has
been compiled using this native AquaTk. Thus you do not need
an X server to run the tcltk demos. Since R-devel comes with the
quartz() device, you have a version of R here that runs from the
terminal and does all its graphics (including tk) without X11. In fact
this R has been compiled with the --without-x flag.

Install the Tcl and Tk frameworks in /Library/Frameworks, and
do not forget to edit bin/R to reflect where you install this R.

There is one major problem with this R that prevents it from being
anything more than just interesting. It does not have an event handler, 
and
thus the window of the quartz device and the windows made by
tcltk do not react to mouse or keybord. You cannot click them
to bring them to the front, you have to move other windows out of
the way. You cannot fill in the tk dialogs or click the tk buttons.

To make this a practical R, someone has to add some sort of event
handler, and maybe add the Carbon or Cocoa GUI as well.
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