[R-SIG-Mac]Tcl/tk on OS X Jaguar

[Stefano Iacus]

On Venerdì, gen 17, 2003, at 17:48 Europe/Rome, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> It is easy to get native (non-X11) tcl/tk support in the Darwin version
> of R (in the sense that you can run the tk demos and so on) but since
> Darwin R runs from the terminal window there is no way to get the
> tk windows to the foreground. In order to do that R has to be
> embedded in a Cocoa application, so that the events are handled
> correctly by the OS X windowmanager (in particular SetFrontProcess).
>
there is also the opportunity to use the REventLoop package but I have  
not had time to implement it.
stefano


> So the easy way out is to use the Darwin/X11 version, for instance
> the one on gifi (which will be upgraded later today with pmg,
> RGtkExtra, RGtkHTML, RGtkGlade, RGdkPixbuf).
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 07:58 AM, Don MacQueen wrote:
>
>> At 3:23 PM +0100 1/17/03, Fernando Zúñiga wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We want to use tcl/tk  (tk esp) on a Macintosh to simplify access to  
>>> our R scripts. We have
>>> the OS X and classic mac version of R (1.6) installed, but it  
>>> doesn't seem to support tcl/tk.
>>
>> I believe that's correct--or was at one time--perhaps the carbonized  
>> (not just classic) version now supports tcltk.
>>
>>> We then tried to install the OS X / Darwin version (1.5), but  
>>> although we got a "installation
>>> succesfully completed" message, we cannot find the R directories,  
>>> binaries, etc.
>>
>> You might as well go for the latest version, 1.6.2.
>>
>> On my OS X Mac, I installed the Darwin R from source code, and the  
>> final step, the "make install" step, put things here
>>
>> [322]% which R
>> /usr/local/bin/R
>>
>> and here
>> [323]% ls /usr/local/lib/R
>> ./           .DS_Store*   COPYING      COPYRIGHTS   NEWS          
>> THANKS
>>  bin/         etc/         library/     share/      ../ AUTHORS       
>> COPYING.LIB  FAQ          RESOURCES    afm/         doc/ include/
>> modules/
>>
>>> Question 1: Do we need the OS X specific version of R for tcl/tk  
>>> support?
>>> Question 2: How come the OS X version does not install?
>>
>> It does install, but it took me several tries to get it right, the  
>> first time I did it.
>>
>>>
>>> We're running a Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) computer, with X11 installed  
>>> and a Mac native tcl/tk.
>>
>> Your fastest route to tcltk support is probably to get Jan's binaries  
>> from here
>> http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub
>>
>> I installed tcltk from fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) in order  
>> to get tcltk functionality in R, the R I built from sources. But  
>> check Jan's website first.
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>>
>>> --Fernando
>>>
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>>
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