[R-SIG-Mac] Re: Relocatable R installation?

[stefano iacus]

Hi James,

just for you convenience, I've add a package installer for the X11 
TclTk libraries.
It still require privileges though.

I think it is reasonable to distribute tcltk inside the framework, but 
it's not just a matter of dlls path in this case as the dll are there 
(inside the R.framework) with the correct paths (the problem is in that 
I did not patch the tcltk package to take the good tcl.ini and tk.ini 
files).

stefano


On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:50 PM, James Wettenhall wrote:

> Simon,
>
> Thanks very much for your reply.
>
> To further clarify one thing, the relocatable R installation
> issue is certainly not important for the end user, but is more
> an issue for me in practising building and installing a
> customized wizard without having sufficient installation
> privileges.  I have had great success doing this on Windows,
> without ever being able to write to the Windows Registry (for
> LOCAL_MACHINE, only CURRENT_USER), and without being able to
> write to C:\Program Files\ or C:\WINNT.
>
> I do understand the multiple Tcl/Tk issue for MacOS X.  My
> impression is that Aqua Tcl/Tk has the nicest binary
> installation wizards at the moment (which is natural because it
> is 'native'), but for now, X11 seems to work more reliably with
> R, which is why I was thinking of an X11 binary Tcl/Tk bundled
> with R for Mac in the way binary Tcl/Tk is bundled with R for
> Windows.  (Then I'd be quite happy for it to be replaced by
> Aqua Tcl/Tk in the future.)  But I'll read over your email
> again, and give it some more thought.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
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