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.
