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

[stefano iacus]

On 18/ago/05, at 02:36, Bill Northcott wrote:


> On 17/08/2005, at 8:00 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> IMHO while this might work, it is really not a good way to go.  Aqua
> Tcl/Tk is part of Apple's system software as of Tiger and installing
> the versions from the R package will effectively replace them, which
> is likely to lead to trouble in the future.
>
>

TclTk coming with R installer, do not override Aqua Tcl and Tk  
frameworks. Frameworks are in /Library/Frameworks and x11 tcltk is  
inside /usr/local/lib. So the installer do not replace anything from  
Apple.

stefano


> I think the right way is to build an X11 Tk framework called Tk-
> X11.framework to distinguish its functions from the system's Aqua
> framework.  I have suggested to Dan Steffen that this is how X11 Tk
> should be built.
>
> I have built such a framework on Tiger using the system's Tcl and
> little manual tweaking to get the names right.  It seems to work well
> with R and other packages.  I am in the process of making a Tiger
> build of Swarm that will use this framework.
>
> I would like to see something similar for R.
>
> Bill Northcott
>
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