[R-SIG-Mac] Trouble with tcltk

[Berend Hasselman]

On 03-09-2013, at 12:21, Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Many packages require tcltk.
> 
> I have installed http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/tcltk-8.5.5-x11.pkg and yet, when I try
> library(gamlss.demo)
> I get
> Loading required package: rpanel
> Loading required package: 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/libs/tcltk.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error: package ‘tcltk’ could not be loaded
> 

Did you see the note (in bold)

NOTE: R 3.0.0 and higher comes bundled with Tck/Tk 8.6.0 so you do not need this package

on the CRAN page http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools?
"This package" refers to tcltk8.5.5.

Reinstalling R 3.0.1 should solve your problem (see note).

Berend

> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] datasets  utils     stats     graphics  grDevices methods   base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] sos_1.3-7       brew_1.0-6      ggplot2_0.9.3.1 car_2.0-18      nnet_7.3-7      MASS_7.3-28    
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] colorspace_1.2-2   dichromat_2.0-0    digest_0.6.3       grid_3.0.1         gtable_0.1.2       labeling_0.2      
> [7] munsell_0.4.2      plyr_1.8           proto_0.3-10       RColorBrewer_1.0-5 reshape2_1.2.2     scales_0.2.3      
> [13] stringr_0.6.2     
> 
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