[R-SIG-Mac] Removing (completely) TCl/Tk

[Federico Calboli]

> On 9 Dec 2015, at 18:40, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 09/12/2015 16:12, Federico Calboli wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I have TCL/Tk installed from the latest DMG image for R 3.2.2 I will upgrade to R 3.2.3 as soon as the DMG is available).  I’d like to *completely remove* Tcl/Tk as installed by the DMG image.  I can get a list of files from:
>> 
>> pkgutil --files org.r-project.x86_64.tcltk.x11
>> 
>> but the list is long it it looks like it is going to be tedious to remove all the files one by one (I could remove the directories but I could only do that once I am sure nothing else is there from another source).
>> 
>> Is there a smarter way of achieving my goal?
> 
> You could edit the list to remove directories such as
> 
> usr
> usr/local
> usr/local/bin
> usr/local/include
> usr/local/lib
> usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> usr/local/man
> usr/local/man/man1
> usr/local/man/man3
> usr/local/share
> usr/local/share/man
> usr/local/share/man/mann
> 
> then use a (shell? R?) script on the list.

Indeed.  My only concern is whether these directories have been created by the R DMG installer and have *never* been used by any other program to put some Tcl/Tk related file (or not just those, especially in the ‘man’ directories!).  Hence my desire to remove the files in the list, so I can ascertain post-hoc whether the directories are empty or not (and thus remove them).

BW

F





> 
> Also, the R-devel manual sources contains the commented block:
> 
> @c Maybe too dangerous for naive users.
> @c The second could be uninstalled by an @R{} script like
> 
> @c @example
> @c lis <- system2("pkgutil", "--files org.r-project.x86_64.texinfo", stdout = TRUE)
> @c setwd("/")
> @c file.remove(rev(lis))
> @c @end example
> 
> @c @noindent
> @c run as the owner of @file{/usr/local}.
> 
> where file.remove will remove empty directories (and rev() ensures they are emptied first).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

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