[R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit R tcltk library problem: Symbol not found: _Tk_Init

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 16:29 , Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> I then installed R.app from R-GUI-5256-2.8-leopard-Deployment64.dmg
>> and installed a number of bioconductor libraries from source.
>> I advanced farther in getting 64-bit R and libraries up and
>> running than at any previous attempt, and thought I finally had
>> functional 64 bit R available on my Mac.
>>
>> But I keep hitting a tcltk problem that I can't seem to solve.
>> Whenever I'm trying to install a package that requires tcltk
>> the installation fails with this message:
>>
>> Loading required package: tcltk
>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath =  
>> DLLpath, ...) :
>> unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
>> Resources/library/tcltk/libs/ppc64/tcltk.so':
>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/ 
>> ppc64/tcltk.so, 10): Symbol not found: _Tk_Init
>> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ 
>> tcltk/libs/ppc64/tcltk.so
>> Expected in: dynamic lookup
>
> I know this doesn't really help you at all, but it seems that tcltk  
> installed smoothly on my machine (Mac Pro) and I was able to compile  
> a 4-way fat binary.
>

Indeed, this issue is specific to ppc64. The problem is that it's not  
possible to build ppc64 binaries of R on an Intel machine so we have  
to use another machine for the ppc64 build and that machine didn't  
have the latest Tcl/Tk installed. This should be fixed now so please  
try the updated nightly build tomorrow.

Thanks,
Simon


> In trying to be a little helpful, though ...
>
>> Initially I installed several Bioconductor packages,
>> using biocLite() e.g.
>> biocLite("beadarray", type = "source")
>
> You don't actually need to install bioconductor packages from source  
> -- they're already compiled as a 4-way fat binary for Leopard as of  
> bioconductor 2.3 ... while it doesn't help you much here, perhaps  
> it's good to know to save you install/compile time in the future.
>
> -steve
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>
> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>
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