[R-SIG-Mac] Problem with tkrplot and affylmGUI

[Sean Davis]

On 8/17/05 7:44 AM, "Jan de Leeuw" <deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu> wrote:

> More precisely: the link statement should be something like
> 
> /usr/local/bin/gcc -dynamiclib -L/usr/local/lib -o tkrplot.dylib
> tcltkimg.o -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl8.5 -L/usr/local/lib -ltk8.5
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXss -lXext -framework R
> 
> and in R/tkrplot you make
> 
>       file.ext <- ".dylib"
> 
> in the function .First.lib
> 
> 
>> This is not hard to fix. The problem is that the tcltk module needs
>> to load tkrplot, and in order to do this tkrplot needs to be linked
>> as a dynamic library (tkrplot.dylib), not as a bundle (tkrplot.so).
>> It is best to download the package, then use R CMD INSTALL, then
>> manually edit the link statement replacing --bundle by --dynamiclib,
>> link again, and manually install tkrplot.dylib. You also need to edit the
>> R code in tkrplot so that it loads with the correct dylib extension.

One more detail that may not be self-evident.  "Manually installing"
tkrplot.dylib means moving tkrplot.dylib from the src directory where
tkrplot was installed to the /libs directory of the installation directory
(like ~/Library/R/library/tkrplot/libs, if you have libraries installed in
your home directory).

Sean