[R-SIG-Mac] homebrew install High Sierra - tcl-tk support

[Rainer Krug]

> On 17 Oct 2017, at 17:18, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 7:56 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:43 AM, Rainer Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> One question about home-brew installation:
>>> 
>>> After upgrading to High Sierra (and update to R 3.4.2), I don’t get tcl-tk support in R.
>>> 
>>> I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> 	> library(tcltk)
>>> 	Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tcltk’:
>>> 	 .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details:
>>> 	  call: fun(libname, pkgname)
>>> 	  error: Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>>> 	In addition: Warning message:
>>> 	S3 methods ‘as.character.tclObj’, ‘as.character.tclVar’, ‘as.double.tclObj’, ‘as.integer.tclObj’, ‘as.logical.tclObj’, ‘as.raw.tclObj’, ‘print.tclObj’, ‘[[.tclArray’, ‘[[<-.tclArray’, ‘$.tclArray’, ‘$<-.tclArray’, ‘names.tclArray’, ‘names<-.tclArray’, ‘length.tclArray’, ‘length<-.tclArray’, ‘tclObj.tclVar’, ‘tclObj<-.tclVar’, ‘tclvalue.default’, ‘tclvalue.tclObj’, ‘tclvalue.tclVar’, ‘tclvalue<-.default’, ‘tclvalue<-.tclVar’, ‘close.tkProgressBar’ were declared in NAMESPACE but not found
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is this a problem on my side, or is there a problem with R & homebrew & High Sierra & tcl-tk?
>> 
>> Caveat. I know almost nothing about homebrew other than its function and the fact that users of it often have problems with installing R properly. The CRAN page for the Mac R 3.4.2 fork says:
>> 
>> -------begin-------
>> Contains R 3.4.2 framework, R.app GUI 1.70 in 64-bit for Intel Macs, Tcl/Tk 8.6.6 X11 libraries and Texinfo 5.2. The latter two components are optional and can be ommitted when choosing "custom install", they are only needed if you want to use the tcltk R package or build package documentation from sources.
> 
> I intended that the next sentence be here (and wan't intending two copies of those sentences):
> 
> Note: the use of X11 (including tcltk) requires XQuartz to be installed since it is no longer part of OS X. Always re-install XQuartz when upgrading your OS X to a new major version.
> 
>> -----end----
>> 
>> So it makes me wonder if you need to add the correct versions of the underlying system packages in a manner that your homebrew installation can find them. (the 3.3 fork uses a differnt version of Tcl/Tk.)

Thanks David - but no luck. Still the same problems - even after installing quartz again.

Cheers,

Rainer

>> 
>> --
>> David.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Rainer
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>> 
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>>> 
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>> David Winsemius
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>> 
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