[R-SIG-Mac] Mac OS X and R - tcl/tk, BWidget and Tktable

[stefano iacus]

These infos I prepared on July 05 for some Bioc users worked at that  
time, of course you should take the latest versions of the packages.
But the idea is that one package should be built from source and the  
other one just moved in the appropriate folder of your system.
stefano



download BWidget from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12883
once you get the archive BWidget-1.7.0.tar.gz move it to /usr/local/ 
lib and install it with

sudo mv /some_download_path/BWidget-1.7.0.tar.gz /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/loca/lib
sudo tar zxf BWidget-1.7.0.tar.gz

and you are done.

download Tktable from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464
and get Tktable2.9.tar.gz

now you need Apple Dev tools installed to continue:
tar zxf Tktable2.9.tar.gz
cd Tktable2.9
./configure
make
sudo make install

now it works in R

If you don't have dev tools installed I can send you a copy of  
Tktable built (80k).





On 03/ott/06, at 00:52, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Ingo wrote:
>
>> I still have the problem I outlined earlier.  I am trying to run R
>> 2.3.1 on OS X 10.4.7 in order to use a package called affylmGUI.  I
>> have to start X11 in in order to initialise the tcltk package, but
>> when I start the affylmGUI, the extensions BWidget and Tktable
>> aren't found.  I have installed them several times using the
>> TclTkAquaBI-8.4.10.0, but it won't work.
>
> That cannot work, because you're installing the wrong Tcl/Tk. You
> have to install the extensions for the X11 Tcl/Tk (which lives in /
> usr/local), but you are installing Aqua Tcl/Tk which is entirely
> different (and CRAN version of R doesn't use it).
>
>
>> I know that there are some problems with X11 and Aqua, but how can
>> I get around that.  Even when I run R from the X11 terminal, it
>> won't find the extensions (same
>> error message)
>>
>> What should I do?
>>
>
> Get the extensions for X11 Tcl/Tk. I don't know if they are available
> in binary form somewhere, if not, you may have to compile them from
> sources.
>
> Alternatively, you can re-compile R with Aqua Tcl/Tk support, but
> then you cannot use the R GUI.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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