Dear Dwight, The tcltk package *is* part of the standard R distribution. It is Tcl/Tk itself for X11 that you needed to install. I think that it too is part of the standard R distribution and am not sure why wasn't on your system. I'm copying this reply to Rob Goedman, who is much more knowledgeable than I about R on Mac OS X.
Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Krehbiel, Dwight > Sent: March-15-10 10:32 AM > To: 'John Fox'; 'r-help@r-project.org' > Subject: Re: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 > or 10.6 > > Thanks very much, John. Installing that tcltk package is all that is > required. It would be nice to make this a part of the download of 2.10.1 as > it is wasting a significant amount of time for R Commander users on the Mac. > > Dwight > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Fox [mailto:j...@mcmaster.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:01 PM > To: Krehbiel, Dwight > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 > or 10.6 > > Dear Dwight, > > I've never observed this problem myself, and many people apparently run the > tcltk and Rcmdr packages with R 2.10.1 under Mac OS 10.6 without difficulty. > You can confirm that the problem is with tcltk by trying to load that > package independently of the Rcmdr: i.e., library(tcltk). > > Similar questions have been raised several times, however, on both r-help > and the r-mac-sig lists, including in the last week. The problem is probably > with your installation of Tcl/Tk. See, e.g., Rob Goedman's recent post to > r-help, and the following message from r-sig-mac, which tells you what to > do.: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-January/007008.html>. > > I hope this helps (please tell me and the list whether it does). > > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox > Senator William McMaster > Professor of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On > > Behalf Of Krehbiel, Dwight > > Sent: March-14-10 12:22 PM > > To: 'r-help@r-project.org' > > Subject: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 > or > > 10.6 > > > > Dear R Commander experts, > > > > I have now had multiple failures in loading R Commander with R version > 2.10.1 > > (most recent one on the CRAN site) on a Mac running OS 10.5 or 10.6. The > > installation of R Commander seems to proceed normally, but when I try to > > start up R Commander, it never loads. It appears that it is loading the > > tcl/tk package that is failing even though I have started up X11 in > advance. > > Does anyone have any experience with this? I know that one of my students > > encountered the same problem, and I have experienced it on more than one > > machine - both PowerPC and Intel-based. We are routinely running early > > versions of R and R Commander. > > > > I would appreciate any clues. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Dwight Krehbiel > > Bethel College > > North Newton, KS 6717 > > > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.