On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek@r-project.org>wrote:
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> I just checked, and homebrew proper doesn't even provide Tcl/Tk so it
> seems like this is not really an issue at all. Even the dupes version
> installs in a hidden location so it doesn't clash. Homebrew typically tries
> not to mess up the system so it was historically working along with R very
> well. So do you have some evidence for them not playing well together? I
> know MacPorts and Fink were disasters, but Homebrew has so far tried to
> learn from their mistakes.
>

Hmmm. It seems that brew tcl-tk does not put anything in /usr/, so it all
seems to be fine, actually.

Quite possibly, my problems come up because I am compiling R from source,
which is a much less serious case. Will try. Anyway, sorry for the noise.

Gabor


>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > S
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Davor
> > >>
> > >> On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Federico Calboli <
> f.calboli@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Simon,
> > >>>
> > >>> <snip>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Unfortunately HB installs by default in /usr/local and requires
> full control so you cannot have native libraries and HB in the same place
> at the same time. So essentially you have to pick one or the other. There
> are two options:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> a) install HB in another place. This allows you to keep native
> libraries in /usr/local and parallel HB. HB is less tested that way,
> though, so that's why HB is shy of recommending it.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> b) ignore HB's moaning. It should be ok as long as you don't
> install tcl/tk via HB. It may get complicated if dependencies detect tcl/tk
> so for safety you could rename the .pc files and the t*Config.sh files if
> you don't expect to compile R packages that depend on tcl/tk.
> > >>>
> > >>> I am ignoring the moanings of brew doctor.  I generally try and
> avoid compiling R packages if at all possible, and I never used stuff that
> uses tcl/tk (that I know of).  My main concern is that I want to install
> SciPy and Python 3 (assuming this can be done in a way that will not get
> Mavericks throw a fit) and that might -- or not -- get some tcl/tk action in.
>  If not, R.app and HB can live together for all I care.
> > >>>
> > >>> Best
> > >>>
> > >>> F
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cheers,
> > >>>> Simon
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> BW
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> F
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> PS  I also asked on apple stack, but I haven't go any reasonable
> answer thus far and I'd rather get going.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
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