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

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> 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?
> ;-)
>

Sorry, didn't see the "X-".

Your instructions worked well. Installing the tcltk package did the trick.
Thanks,
Dan


> 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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