[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr & tcltk

[Rob J Goedman]

Hi Cormac,

Must have missed your previous request. I'll mail you directly.
R-Sig-Mac is definitely the right place!

Regards,
Rob


On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:38 AM, Cormac Lawler wrote:

> Hi,
> I posted to r-sig-mac before, but I'm still having problems
> downloading Rcmdr. I've tried following the instructions at:
> http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation- 
> notes.html
>
> I'm still getting errors when I try to download the package from
> within R - problem seems to be TclTk packages. I asked on the R help
> list - they suggested I needed to install X11, which I did, but I
> still get this error [2].
>
> A possible problem is that i have already downloaded Rcmdr from the
> web - there are certainly plenty of files on my system, as a command-F
> confirms. These could be interfering in some way.
>
> However, i suspect that the real issue is Tcl/Tk, as the console
> details below show. I have downloaded R (base). Is there anything else
> I need to download or is there a possible bug with the CRAN base
> download or the way i've managed my files?
>
> Thanks,
> Cormac
>
> [1] Install packages - Rcmdr:
>
> trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/bin/macosx/2.1/PACKAGES'
> Content type 'text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' length 27756 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 27Kb
>
> trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/bin/macosx/2.1/ 
> Rcmdr_1.0-2.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 644758 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 629Kb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>     /tmp/RtmptX8Kfn/downloaded_packages
> trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/bin/macosx/2.1/PACKAGES'
> Content type 'text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' length 27756 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 27Kb
>
>
> [2] Package manager - Rcmdr:
>
> Loading required package: tcltk
> 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':
>   dlcompat: dyld: /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R can't open
> library: /usr/local/lib/libtk8.4.dylib  (No such file or directory,
> errno = 2)
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html()
> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
>
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