[R-SIG-Mac] Cannot load tcl/tk (tcltk package installed)

[Anca Chereches]

Great, everything seems to work now! I don't know why the symlink 
wasn't there originally. I remember doing a basic xcode installation a 
couple of years ago and I've never run into trouble until now.

Thank you and sorry for the really basic question!


Best,
Anca


On Thu Aug 30 19:09:55 2012, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Anca Chereches wrote:
>
>> Well, d'oh. I only just realized that the error message is saying that tk is looking for x11r6 in /usr and obviously not finding anything. Is this a matter of setting paths or are x11 and x11r6 different things?
>>
>
> You should create a symlink
>
> sudo ln -s X11 /usr/X11R6
>
> However, it's still a bit puzzling why you don't have that symlink, because Apple's X11 does create it...
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> Thank you,
>> Anca
>>
>>
>> On Thu Aug 30 18:24:14 2012, Anca Chereches wrote:
>>> rrsdhcp-10-32-137-61:~ acasa$ file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib: cannot open
>>> `/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib' (No such file or directory)
>>>
>>> No X11R6 folder, but I do have an X11 folder:
>>>
>>> rrsdhcp-10-32-137-61:~ acasa$ file /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>> /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
>>> /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O
>>> 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
>>> /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture i386):    Mach-O
>>> dynamically linked shared library i386
>>> /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture ppc7400):    Mach-O
>>> dynamically linked shared library ppc
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Anca
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu Aug 30 17:19:22 2012, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Anca Chereches <anca.che at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm getting the following error message when trying to load tcltk:
>>>>>
>>>>> "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/2.15/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so':
>>>>>
>>>>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/i386/tcltk.so,
>>>>> 10): Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>>>> Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/libtk8.5.dylib
>>>>> Reason: image not found
>>>>> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘tcltk’"
>>>>>
>>>>> I've installed tcltk-8.5.5 from the dmg on cran and as far as I can
>>>>> tell installation was successful. I have tk8.5 and tcl8.5 in
>>>>> /usr/local/lib. X11 is also installed and working.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running:
>>>>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
>>>>> R.app GUI 1.52 (6188) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>>>> On: Mac OS X 10.6.8
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't really know how to go about figuring out the problem. I'd be
>>>>> grateful for any hints or suggestions of help pages and so on. I've
>>>>> googled this, but most problems seem to be related to people not
>>>>> having installed tcltk, which I have.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please post the output of
>>>>
>>>> file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>>>
>>>> you should see something like
>>>>
>>>> $ file /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 3
>>>> architectures
>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O
>>>> 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture i386):    Mach-O
>>>> dynamically linked shared library i386
>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (for architecture ppc7400):    Mach-O
>>>> dynamically linked shared library ppc
>>>>
>>>> if your X11 is installed properly.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>
>>
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