[R-SIG-Mac] tcltk does not automatically launch XQuartz

[peter dalgaard]

Perhaps try the suggestions from

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4157422?start=0&tstart=0

-pd

On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:43 , Luca Scrucca wrote:

> Dear Mac useRs,
> 
> I have a problem with tcltk on a Mac running OSX 10.8.2 and R 2.15.1.
> Using R.app GUI I got the following:
> 
>> library(tcltk)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Warning message:
> In fun(libname, pkgname) :
>  no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
> 
> I was able to solve this by running XQuartz.app before loading the tcltk library. 
> However, this doesn't help if I run R from the console. Unfortunately, this is needed if you want to build/check a package that requires tcltk.
> 
> Furthermore, in the previous OSX versions I used (both Leopard and Snow Leopard series) when I was in R (both on GUI or console) and I needed the tcltk library, if X11 was not running the system automatically launched the required application. This appears to be changed with Mountain Lion (and Xquartz) but I guess the old behaviour would solve the problem mentioned above.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Luca
> 
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