[R-SIG-Mac] Error loading tcltk library

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:24 , Ivan Alves wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The latest leopard snapshot of R 2.8.1 seems to have a problem  
> loading the tcltk package, and found no related entries in  
> gmane.gmane.comp.lang.r.mac.  It appears to be a broken link. Any  
> suggestions on how to fix it? Many thanks in advance.
>

As the messages says you are apparently missing Tcl/Tk. If you had  
installed CRAN R, it would be installed automatically. Since you  
didn't, you have to install it separately from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

Cheers,
Simon



> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
> Output:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-05 r47481)
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>
> locale:
> en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > library(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/i386/tcltk.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/ 
> i386/tcltk.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ 
> tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
>
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