On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Michael Gormley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Thanks for your prompt responses.  I will take a look at the R Installation
> and Administration manual.  Where can I obtain the tcl-devel and tk-devel
> files?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Richardson, Patrick wrote:
>>
>>  This is covered in the "R Installation and Administration" manual.  You
>>> need to specify the location of your tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh files.
>>>
>>
>> And he will not have those.  He needs tcl-devel and tk-devel installed,
>> and then (as this is a RedHat/Fedora system) the tclConfig.sh etc will be
>> found by configure (for R, and for some of the packages).
>>
>> tcltk2 is mentioned. That need Tcl/Tk extensions that I have failed to get
>> to work correctly with on F8: it is a path issue with where the Fedora
>> packages install the extensions.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ____________________________________________
>>> Patrick Richardson
>>> Biostatistician - Laboratory of Translational Medicine
>>> Van Andel Research Institute
>>> Grand Rapids, MI  49503
>>> ph. 616-234-5787
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Behalf Of Michael Gormley
>>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:29 PM
>>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system
>>>
>>> trying to install the pbatR package, I was greeted with the error
>>>
>>> Error: package 'tcltk' does not have a name space
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>> Directly installing the package tcltk2 returned the following error:
>>>
>>> Loading required package: tcltk
>>> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>>>       Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>>>
>>> I have seen from previous posts that tcl/tk must be present when R is
>>> installed.
>>> I tried reinstalling R from source using
>>>
>>> ./configure
>>> make
>>>
>>> and although the installation went fine I received the same errors.
>>>
>>> Typing rpm -qa|grep tcl returns:
>>> tclx-8.3.5-4
>>> tcl-8.4.7-2
>>> tcl-8.4.7-2
>>>
>>> Typing rpm -qa|grep tk returns:
>>> gtkspell-2.0.7-2
>>> atk-1.8.0-2
>>> gtk+-1.2.10-33
>>> gtk2-2.4.13-22
>>> authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.3
>>> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
>>> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
>>> tk-8.4.7-2
>>> gtksourceview-1.1.0-4
>>> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
>>> tk-8.4.7-2
>>> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
>>> gtkglarea-1.2.2-16
>>> gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7.el4
>>> gtkhtml3-3.3.2-6.EL
>>> usermode-gtk-1.74-1
>>> atk-1.8.0-2
>>> gtk2-2.4.13-22
>>> pygtk2-libglade-2.4.0-1
>>> gtk+-1.2.10-33
>>> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
>>> pygtk2-2.4.0-1
>>>
>>> So it seems that tcl and tk are present on the system.  I saw a post
>>> suggesting that I may need some development packages?  What is a good
>>> place
>>> to find these packages?
>>>
>>> I am running R version 2.5.1 on a Linux machine running Redhat Enterprise
>>> 3.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know if you need any more info on the operating system and if
>>> there
>>> are any ideas on how to resolve these issues.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael Gormley
>>>
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>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  
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