[R-SIG-Mac]Using tcltk Widgets in Bioconductor

[Jan de Leeuw]

Well, with an X server running, it works fine for me. But just in
case, do

setenv DISPLAY localhost:0

and try again. This should not be necessary, however, if your X11 is
installed properly.


On Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003, at 10:26 US/Pacific, Matthew Fero wrote:

> Since you all are seem to be the Mac experts I thought I'd ask here  
> first.  I'd like to use the 'tkWidgets' package which is a part of the  
> bioconductor project.  Using Jan de Leeuw's R-1.7.0 build from Gifi in  
> Apple's X11 xterm window I get the following error:
>
> > library(tkWidgets)
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>         no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
> Error in .Last.lib(libpath) : Tcl is not loaded
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : tcl/tk package `tcltk' not  
> available -- forget about `tkWidgets
>
>
> I guess one wouldn't expect this to work with ith the "R-console"  
> interface from Wan and Iacus running R v.1.6.2 -- Not surprisingly, it  
> gives the following error:
>
> > library(tkWidgets)
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : tcl/tk package `tcltk' not  
> available -- forget about `tkWidgets'!
> In addition: Warning message:
> There is no package called `tcltk' in: library(package, char = TRUE,  
> logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,
>
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to use the 'tkWidgets' package  
> under Mac OSX?
>
>
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