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 >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >>> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, >> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.