Thanks, that works actually out of the box from a fresh OSX 10.6 installation. So no ActiveTcl is needed. This is great!
Greetings, Adrian On 09/02/2010 05:01 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > This is relatively simple if you can find the packages you need in the > default Tcl/Tk install on the Mac (/System/Library/Tcl) and if these > packages are compatibles with the X11 Tcl/Tk used by R. This should be > fine for packages containing no compiled code. For the others, you > should check first (but for instance, Img and tsl work for me - Mac OS > X 10.6.4). You can then use these package in R own Tcl environment > like this: > > > library(tcltk) > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > > addTclPath("/System/Library/Tcl") > > tclRequire("Img") > <Tcl> 1.4 > > Best, > > Philippe > > ..............................................<°}))><........ > ) ) ) ) ) > ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean > ) ) ) ) ) > ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems > ) ) ) ) ) Mons University, Belgium > ( ( ( ( ( > .............................................................. > > On 01/09/10 18:16, Adrian Waddell wrote: >> Dear R-Community, >> >> I need the Img tk extension for my R package. It all works on my Ubuntu >> machine (libtk-img). However I experience a great deal of trouble when I >> try to install the package on OSX 10.5 or 10.6 (in fact I'm not able to >> do it). >> >> As I understand it, the ActiveTcl with it's teacup package manager do >> not have an effect on the the x11 tcl installation which R accesses. >> MacPorts however has the libtk-img package not listed and compiling it >> from the source (with configure, make all, make install) does not do the >> job either for me (adding the compiled package folder to auto_path). >> >> Now, as I would like some R users to once use my R package (once it's on >> CRAN), installing the Img tk extension should to be a fairly easy task >> on OSX . >> >> Can anybody tell me how I best tackle this problem in a way, such that >> OSX R users (and myself) in future can easily install the Img tk >> package? >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Adrian Waddell >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel