[R-SIG-Mac] How to correct tcltk path?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 04/04/2024 17:46, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> You need to install XQuartz. This is IMO stated somewhat clearly at
>    https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
> ("somewhat", because - as always - it seems pretty clear when you know what
> its trying to say)

And definitely clear in the R-admin manual:

"Various parts of the build require XQuartz to be installed: see 
https://www.xquartz.org/releases/.20 These include the tcltk package and 
the X11 graphics device: attempting to use these without XQuartz will 
remind you."

Without the actual messages, I cannot check if that corresponds to what 
the OP saw.  But it probably was from

                 message("tcltk DLL is linked to ", shQuote(this))
                 stop("X11 library is missing: install XQuartz from 
www.xquartz.org",

and he omitted the second line ....



> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM Gregory via R-SIG-Mac <
> r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having an issue with R looking for tcltk in the wrong place. Whenever
>> I start R, I get a message: tcltk DLL is linked to
>> '/opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib'. However, there is no /opt/X11 on my system
>> and tcltk is really in /opt/R/arm64, where the R binary installer put it.
>> Where is R getting the /opt/X11 path and how do I correct that? So far I've
>> tried exporting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=opt/R/arm64:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to my
>> environment in my zprofile, but that hasn't worked.
>>
>> Possibly relevant details:
>> M2 MacBook Pro, MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1
>> R.version 4.3.3 installed with binary installer from CRAN.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gregory
>>
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