[R-SIG-Mac] Problem with tcl/tk for R in Tiger

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

If you use the newest version of R for MacOS you have the option of 
installing tcl/tk (use "custom" under installation). Using that it should 
work! You may need to delete the old stuff in case of conflicts. 

Kasper

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Bernard Leong wrote:

> I have installed the latest version of R 2.1.1 in the Tiger OSX.
> However, when I load up R and use the following command:
> 
> > library(tcltk)
> 
> I encounter the following error:
> 
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
> as.logical(now)) :
>        unable to load shared library
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so,
> 10): corrupt binary, library ordinal too big
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
> 
> I have done a couple of remedies:
> 1) Tried installing tcl and tk 8.4 from source
> 2) Tried to install the version of tcltk from the fink sourceforge net.
> 3) Tried to change the path
> 
> and it does not work.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem  as I need tcltk to run limmaGUI?
> 
> yours sincerely,
> Bernard
> 
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