Hi Peter Spot on! You where absolutely right. After installing the tcltk bits it worked just fine.
Thank you very much! Lars On Aug 17, 4:36 pm, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to chime in late (for some reason, I was not at the Mac when this came > in originally). > > I can't reproduce the situation. One guess is that you haven't installed the > tcltk bits, as indicated on thehttp://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx/page. > > -pd > > On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Lars Dalby wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > > @ Andrew: Did you get this problem solved? > > I am having similar problems and have tried to work around it using > > options(gsubfn.engine = "R") as suggested by Gabor. > > However, this don't solve on my machine. R just freezes up trying to > > execute read.csv.sql() > > > On OSX 10.6.4, R 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 64bit > > > Any help is much appreciated! > > > Lars > > > On Jul 28, 9:41 pm, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM, AndrewPage <savejar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> Recently, I've been trying to use packages in R that require loading the > >>> Tcl/Tk interface. However, I get a strange result and a crash that I > >>> haven't been able to find discussion about on these boards (or any > >>> others). > > >>> When I enter library(tcltk), it reads "Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... ", but > >>> then never says "done" or displays some sort of error message. Looks like > >>> this: > > >>>> x11() > >>>> library(tcltk) > >>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... > > >>> Now you can type additional commands in, at your peril! For example, if I > >>> type in the text "library", nothing happens, but "library(" causes R to > >>> freeze up irreparably, with "executing: > >>> try(gsub('\\s+','',paste(capture.output(print(args(library)))),collapse=")) > >>> ,silent=TRUE)" > >>> displayed at the bottom. When this happens, there's nothing you can do > >>> but > >>> restart R because it's completely frozen. > > >>> I'm running R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-07-27 r52627) > > >>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5603) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] > > >>> with XQuartz 2.3.5 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple53) > > >>> on a mac (snow leopard) > > >>> Thanks for any help/suggestions in advance, > > >>> Andrew > > >> One thought is that if this is to use gsubfn or sqldf (which uses > >> gsubfn) then you can get them to not use thetcltkcode but use R code > >> instead by either of these two means: > > >> 1. issue the command: > >> options(gsubfn.engine = "R") > >> before issuing your library(sqldf) or library(gsubfn) command. You > >> can put the options command in your .Rprofile if you like and then you > >> will have it on every session. > > >> or > > >> 2. use a build of R that has notcltkin it. In that case it will > >> recognize it and switch to using R. I believe one such build exists > >> for the Mac. > > >> ______________________________________________ > >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing > >> listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ > > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.