[R-SIG-Mac] tcltk on M1 mac?

[Simon Urbanek]

Vince,

Thanks for the report, yes, that is a known problem, because the R installer for arm64 doesn't include Tcl/Tk unlike the Intel version. It is a long story, but I hope to update the installer soon.

Thanks,
Simon


> On May 14, 2021, at 02:47, Vincent Carey <stvjc using channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to get tcltk running with R on M1 machine.  Homebrew tcltk
> seems to have wrong architecture; attempt to build from source does not
> help.  Any hints appreciated.
> 
> 
> R version 4.1.0 RC (2021-05-10 r80283) -- "Camp Pontanezen"
> 
> Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> 
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> 
> 
>> library(tcltk)
> 
> *Error: package or namespace load failed for 'tcltk':*
> 
> * .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details:*
> 
> *  call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)*
> 
> *  error: unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so':*
> 
> *
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so,
> 10): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.6/Tcl*
> 
> *  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so*
> 
> *  Reason: image not found*
> 
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