[R-SIG-Mac] loading tcltk fails in R 4.2.1 on macOS

[Simon Urbanek]

John,

Please note that the error is missing X11: tcktk requires XQuartz.

Dev tools are optional and help giving a better error if installed, but they are not required.

Cheers,
Simon


> On 3/09/2022, at 05:00, John Fox <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear R-SIG-MAC list members,
> 
> Unless developer tools are installed, loading the standard tcltk package fails in R 4.2.1 on macOS because of the absence of otool:
> 
> ------- snip -------
> 
> > 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/4.2/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so':
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so, 0x000A): Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
>  Reason: tried: '/opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libX11.6.dylib' (no such file)
> 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
> xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Monterey 12.4
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.2.1
> 
> 
> ------- snip -------
> 
> I discovered this issue when a user (cc'd above) wrote to me about having to install the macOS developer tools in order to use the Rcmdr package. I didn't encounter the problem myself because (of course) I have the developer tools installed. I was able to reproduce the problem by dusting off an old Mac without R installed and starting from scratch.
> 
> I believe that this issue has arisen before, e.g., on R 3.1.2; see <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-December/011260.html>.
> 
> Can this be fixed again in R-patched?
> 
> Thank you,
> John
> 
> -- 
> John Fox, Professor Emeritus
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>