[R-SIG-Mac] tcltk

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 05/01/2015 09:13, Ivan Calandra wrote:
> I still have one other question (sorry, it comes late but I was not home):
>
> I intend to install R-patched but since I've never done it, I'm not sure
> which version to install from http://r.research.att.com/
> Should it be R-3.1-branch or R-devel?

R-3.1-branch is current R-patched.

>
> Thanks again for your help
> Ivan
>
>
> PS: regarding Xcode, I don't have a developer ID (and I don't intend to
> pay for it since I would never use it), so I cannot download Xcode for
> MacOS 10.6

Eh?  You just need to register your Apple ID to use that site.  Paid IDs 
get access to pre-release software, but AFAIK the rest is open to all 
registered users.

>
> --
> Ivan Calandra, ATER
> University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
> GEGENA² - EA 3795
> CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
> 51100 Reims, France
> +33(0)3 26 77 36 89
> ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
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>
> Le 27/12/14 06:54, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
>> On 26/12/2014 20:28, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> On Dec 26, 2014, at 3:25 AM, Ivan Calandra
>>> <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you Simon for your answer.
>>>> But I cannot find Xcode for MacOS 10.6...
>>>
>>> Go to
>>>
>>> https://developer.apple.com/downloads
>>>
>>> and search for Xcode 4.2
>>>
>>> or use
>>>
>>> https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/download.action?path=/Developer_Tools/xcode_4.2_with_ios_5_sdk/xcode_4.2_and_ios_5_sdk_for_snow_leopard.dmg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> And by the way, why did it work with R3.1.1?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Because this check is new in R 3.1.2. I think we may modify the check
>>> to not fail if otool is not installed.
>>
>> We already had in R-patched, so an alternative is to install 3.1.2
>> patched from http://r.research.att.com/
>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ivan Calandra, ATER
>>>> University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
>>>> GEGENA² - EA 3795
>>>> CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
>>>> 51100 Reims, France
>>>> +33(0)3 26 77 36 89
>>>> ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
>>>>
>>>> Le 25/12/14 21:51, Simon Urbanek a écrit :
>>>>> Most recent tcltk is trying to detect the source of Tcl/Tk using
>>>>> otool to make sure all necessary libraries are present. However,
>>>>> older system don't have otool installed by default so this will
>>>>> fail if you don't have Xcode installed which provides otool. It
>>>>> seems that this is the case on your machine, installing Xcode
>>>>> command line tools should fix the issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 25, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Ivan Calandra
>>>>> <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear useRs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have just upgraded to R 3.1.2 for MacOS 10.6.8 (with the binary
>>>>>> for Snow Leopard).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everything is fine except that I get an error when loading TclTk:
>>>>>>> library(tcltk)
>>>>>> Error : .onLoad a échoué dans loadNamespace() pour 'tcltk', détails :
>>>>>>   appel : system2("otool", c("-L", shQuote(DLL)), stdout = TRUE)
>>>>>>   erreur : erreur lors de l'exécution d'une commande
>>>>>> Erreur : le chargement du package ou de l'espace de noms a échoué
>>>>>> pour ‘tcltk’
>>>>>> sh: otool: command not found
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What could be wrong? If needed I can translate the error. I had no
>>>>>> problem with R 3.1.1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas!
>>>>>> Ivan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is my session info:
>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
>>>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>> [1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets methods base
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ivan Calandra, ATER
>>>>>> University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
>>>>>> GEGENA² - EA 3795
>>>>>> CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
>>>>>> 51100 Reims, France
>>>>>> +33(0)3 26 77 36 89
>>>>>> ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>>>>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
>>>>>>
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