[R-SIG-Mac] unable to install packages on R-2.13

[Simon Urbanek]

Baptiste,

you likely forgot to install Tcl/Tk libraries from CRAN:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/tcltk-8.5.5-x11.dmg

Cheers,
Simon

On Mar 25, 2011, at 6:47 PM, baptiste auguie wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> There seems to be something wrong with my installation of R on a
> MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.5.8. I've tried installing R-2.13 from
> r.research.att.com, but install.packages() fails to open the window to
> select a mirror,
> 
> install.packages("ggplot2")
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace()
> for 'tcltk', details:
> call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
> error: unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so':
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so,
> 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib
> Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so
> Reason: image not found
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-23 r54969)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] 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
> 
> For some apparently unrelated reason my attempt at building R from svn
> also results in errors when trying to install packages,
> 
> [...]
> ld warning: in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R, file is not of
> required architecture
> installing to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/plyr/libs/x86_64
> ** R
> ** data
> **  moving datasets to lazyload DB
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
> shared object 'plyr' not found
> Error: loading failed
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/plyr’
> 
> I did not explicitely ask for R to use this 64 architecture, as far as
> I know (I only typed ./configure ; make ; sudo make install). R-2.14
> built from svn works fine, but I'd rather be testing the alpha
> release.
> 
> What's my best option to get R alpha running? Also, I assume removing
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13 altogether is sufficient
> to avoid any possibility of interaction between successive
> installations, is this correct?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> baptiste
> 
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