[R-SIG-Mac] [R] How to run Rcmdr with OS 10.4?

[rocher.f at free.fr]

Dear Professor,

Thank you for your help.
Yes I daily work with OS X4… and I know how R run better and faster with OS X6 : they're installed on my private computer! Unfortunately, I don't need statistics at home!!

Concerning my problem, I've checked it and you're right : tcltk doesn't work correctly. Here is the warning message :

> library(tcltk)
> example(tkProgressBar)

tkPrgB> ## No test: 
tkPrgB> pb <- tkProgressBar("test progress bar", "Some information in %",
tkPrgB+                     0, 100, 50)
Erreur dans structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class = "tclObj") : 
  [tcl] invalid command name "toplevel".


It looks like an environment problem… but I don't understand what.

Best regards,

F. Rocher



----- Mail original -----
De: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
À: "rocher f" <rocher.f at free.fr>
Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
Envoyé: Mercredi 12 Octobre 2011 18:11:26
Objet: RE: [R] How to run Rcmdr with OS 10.4?

Dear rocher.f,

I'm moving this discussion to the r-sig-mac list, where you're more likely to get an informative response.

The Rcmdr package did work with Mac OS X 10.4 and versions 2.9.2 and 2.10.2 of R, but all of these versions are quite old, and I'm afraid that I no longer have an OS X 10.4 system. Maybe someone else with better memory of Mac OS X versions and older versions of R for the Mac will be able to tell you what to do. I do recall something about starting up X11 directly.

It looks as if the problem lies with Tcl/Tk, and you could check that by loading and testing the tcltk package independently of the Rcmdr, e.g.,

library(tcltk)
example(tkProgressBar)

Best,
 John

--------------------------------
John Fox
Senator William McMaster
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox





> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of rocher.f at free.fr
> Sent: October-11-11 6:44 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] How to run Rcmdr with OS 10.4?
> 
> 
> I've installed Rcmdr package and it doesn't run Here is the error message:
> 
> 
> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> [R.app GUI 1.29 (5464) powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1]
> 
> [Workspace restored from /Users/jfc/Documents/TravauxFR/.RData]
> 
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : tcltk Chargement de Tcl/Tk... terminé
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : car Error in
> structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class = "tclObj")
> :
>   [tcl] invalid command name "font".
> 
> De plus : Warning message:
> In fun(...) : couldn't connect to display ":0"
> Error : .onAttach a échoué dans 'attachNamespace'
> Erreur : le chargement du package / espace de noms a échoué pour 'Rcmdr'
> 
> 
> I've tried another version 2.10.2 and Rcmdr with its dependences and it
> returns the same warnings!
> I feel that something lacks on my computer. X11 works and I've installed
> TcTlk 8.5.5-x11.
> 
> What else to do?
> 
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