[R-SIG-Mac] Tcl/Tk

Fri Sep 29 23:43:58 CEST 2006

I'm pretty sure that GRASS, by itself, now uses Apple's Aqua-based Tcl/Tk.
-Don

At 11:58 AM -0700 9/29/06, Dan Putler wrote:
>Hi Denis,
>
>Was X11 running before you launched R? The error message suggests to 
>me it wasn't running.
>
>It is extremely unlikely you will need to re-install OS X. Although, 
>I can imagine you needing to build GRASS from source on your machine 
>with appropriate configure options to get it to use X11 Tcl/Tk 
>instead of using Apple's version.
>
>Dan
>
>On 29-Sep-06, at 11:39 AM, Denis Chabot wrote:
>
>>  Hi Dan,
>>
>>  I remember now, I had included Tcl/Tk when I installed last time. 
>>  Still, I grabbed that straw, downloaded the installer and did a 
>>  default install (I checked, it included Tcl/Tk).
>>
>>  However I'm still not out of trouble. I hope I'll find a solution 
>>  less disturbing than reinstalling OS X...
>>
>>  This was after a restart immediately following reinstallation of R 
>>  2.3.1:
>>
>>
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>>  [Workspace restored from /Users/dchabot/.RData]
>>
>>  > library(tcltk)
>>  Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Erreur dans fun(...) : couldn't 
>>  connect to display ":0"
>>  Erreur : .onLoad a échoué dans 'loadNamespace' pour 'tcltk'
>>  Erreur : le chargement du package / espace de noms a échoué pour 
>>  'tcltk'
>>
>>  > R.Version()
>>  $platform
>>  [1] "powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0"
>>
>>  $arch
>>  [1] "powerpc"
>>
>>  $os
>>  [1] "darwin8.6.0"
>>
>>  $system
>>  [1] "powerpc, darwin8.6.0"
>>
>>  $status
>>  [1] ""
>>
>>  $major
>>  [1] "2"
>>
>>  $minor
>>  [1] "3.1"
>>
>>  $year
>>  [1] "2006"
>>
>>  $month
>>  [1] "06"
>>
>>  $day
>>  [1] "01"
>>
>>  $`svn rev`
>>  [1] "38247"
>>
>>  $language
>>  [1] "R"
>>
>>  $version.string
>>  [1] "Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)"
>>
>>  >
>>
>>  Le 06-09-29 à 14:04, Dan Putler a écrit :
>>
>>>  Hi Denis,
>>>
>>>  For reasons dealing with R's event loop, you need to use X11 Tcl/
>>>  Tk rather than the aqua Tcl/Tk version that comes with OS X 10.4 
>>>  when using Tcl/Tk with R. The CRAN installer of R comes with X11 
>>>  Tcl/Tk. In terms of how GRASS will behave with X11 Tcl/Tk, I don't 
>>>  know, but I can imagine bad things if you run both aqua and X11 
>>>  Tcl/Tk at the same time. The people who most likely will are 
>>>  Lorenzo Moretti (the address of his GRASS on OS X web site is 
>>>  http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/) and William Kyngesburye 
>>>  (the address of his GRASS on OS X web site is http://
>>>  www.kyngchaos.com/macosx/grassinstall).
>>>
>>>  Dan
>>>
>>>  On 29-Sep-06, at 10:39 AM, Denis Chabot wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  I just tried two things that required Tcl/Tk (acronym I've seen a 
>>>>  lot
>>>>  lately, but that means next to nothing to me): Grass 6 and R 
>>>>  packages
>>>>  tcltk and PBSmodelling. Grass simple vanished before completing its
>>>>  launch, and this is what I got from within R:
>>>>
>>>>>  library(tcltk)
>>>>  Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Erreur dans fun(...) : Can't find a
>>>>  usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>>>>       @TCL_IN_FRAMEWORK@ @TCL_IN_FRAMEWORK@
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>>>>  Erreur : .onLoad a échoué dans 'loadNamespace' pour 'tcltk'
>>>>  Erreur : le chargement du package / espace de noms a échoué pour 
>>>>  'tcltk'
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  For some reason I thought Tcl/Tk came standard with Tiger. I cannot
>>>>  find trace of it on my HD. I've used Spotlight but I think this does
>>>>  not search in the invisible folders. I looked manually in /usr and
>  >>> did not see it, but I could have missed it.
>>>>
>>>>  Was I wrong to assume it came with Tiger? Was it like XWindow, a box
>>>>  I had to click to have it included (in which case I'm not sure I
>>>>  clicked it). I also remember seeing an option for Tcl/Tk when I
>>>>  installed R 2.3, and I thought I selected it.
>>>>
>>>>  Anyway, although answers to the above will satisfy my curiosity, my
>>>>  main question is: I downloaded TclTkAqua-8.4.10 from
>>>>  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
>>>>  group_id=86100&package_id=89343
>>>>
>>>>  Can I do any harm in installing this? Is it a solution to the
>>>>  problems above? Is it the solution you'd recomment?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>>  Denis
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