[R-SIG-Mac] R and XDarwin -- should tcltk still work?

[Stefano Iacus]

David,
I've checked in my config. Package tcltk should load quietly under X11 
even when if configured to used aqua TclTk, but when you try to access 
the tcltk GUI you should come to a bus error.
stefano


On Giovedì, ott 9, 2003, at 11:09 Europe/Rome, David Firth wrote:

> This is a question about running R in an X-windows environment on the 
> Mac.
>
> I haven't yet "upgraded" to Apple's X11, and am still using the 
> Xfree86/XDarwin setup, which worked fine with R up to and including 
> 1.7.1.
>
> With the new R 1.8.0 (the binary RAqua from CRAN), though, I get the 
> following problem:
>
> > library(tcltk)
> > kCGErrorIllegalArgument : CGSGetWindowType: Invalid window
> kCGErrorIllegalArgument : CGSGetWindowType: Invalid window
>
> Is this because R now tries to draw Aqua-based Tk windows rather than 
> X11 ones?  or something else?  I'd welcome any hints before I spend 
> time experimenting.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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