[R-SIG-Mac] Error with library(tcltk) on R-devel

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
> Dear Dan,
>
> You also have to install X11



Sorry, I lied when I said this was a totally vanilla machine. I had
actually installed XQuartz 2.7.4.

>
> and Tcl/Tk for X-Windows.

For windows, really?
;-)

Are you sure I have to install tcl/tk on my mac? capabilities() says
TRUE for tcltk.


> The R Commander
> installation notes at



Thanks,
Dan



>
> <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>
> have detailed instructions for various versions of Mac OS X. (You can
> disregard the part about installing the Rcmdr package if you're not
> interested in that.)
>
> I hope this helps,
>  John
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum
> > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 6:15 PM
> > To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Error with library(tcltk) on R-devel
> >
> > On a vanilla Snow Leopard machine with nothing but XCode installed, I
> > installed R-devel and then got this when trying to load the tcltk
> > package:
> >
> > > library(tcltk)
> > 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/3.0/Resources/library/tcltk/l
> > ibs/x86_64/tcltk.so':
> >
> > dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/t
> > cltk/libs/x86_64/tcltk.so,
> > 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib
> >   Referenced from:
> > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/tcltk/li
> > bs/x86_64/tcltk.so
> >   Reason: image not found
> > Error: package or namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
> >
> > > sessionInfo()
> > R Under development (unstable) (2013-03-03 r62117)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > >
> >
> > FWIW, there is no /usr/local directory on this machine.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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