[R-SIG-Mac] tcltk not working in R 3.1.1 on MacOS X 10.9.2

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 11/07/2014 21:45, Yampolsky, Lev wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Attempts to use tcltk (R 3.1.1  on MacOS X 10.9.2) or any dependent library (for example qvalue) results in:
>
>> 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/3.1/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so':
>    dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so, 10): Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>    Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
>    Reason: image not found
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tcltk’
>
> Tried:
> - upgraded to the most recent R (it did say at installation that it includes tcltk)
> - manually upgraded tcltk to tcltk 8.6.1
>
> Neither helped. A few discussions I read imply that I should not do anything and R ver3 or more recent should come bundled with tcltk and it should work.

> Any ideas?

You need XQuartz installed on Mavericks to use X11-based tcltk.  See the 
manuals.


>
> Thanks very much in advance,
>
>
>
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