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

[Rainer M Krug]

Federico Calboli <federico.calboli at helsinki.fi> writes:

>> 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?

There are tools to do exactly this: uninstall pkgs. One is
I=UninstallPKG [http://www.corecode.at/uninstallpkg/] which I am using -
no affiliation, just a user.

Cheers,

Rainer

>> 
>> 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
>
> --
> Federico Calboli
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