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

[Simon Urbanek]

Rich,
you need to instal XQuartz (see instructions on the CRAN page).
Cheers,
Simon



> On 25/05/2021, at 4:02 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
> 
> I am not seeing tcltk in either the released R
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18) -- "Camp Pontanezen"
> Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> 
> 
> or the nightly
> R version 4.1.0 Patched (2021-05-23 r80364) -- "Camp Pontanezen"
> Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> 
> that I just downloaded.
> 
> Here is the transcript
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>> setwd('/Users/rmh/Rwd/')
>> library(tcltk)
> xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
> 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: /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
>  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
> In addition: Warning message:
> In system2("/usr/bin/otool", c("-L", shQuote(DSO)), stdout = TRUE) :
>  running command ''/usr/bin/otool' -L '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs//tcltk.so'' had status 1
>> 
> 
> 
>> On May 14, 2021, at 19:57, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Vince,
>> 
>> please try the latest build, Tcl/Tk should be included now.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 14, 2021, at 7:45 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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