On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:10, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 06/10/03 18:30, Morgan Hough wrote: > > >Sorry for the probable repeat post but I can only search the list up to > > >2002 (is there a better way?). > > > > Yes, see my search page below. > > > > >I am using the RH9 RPM from CRAN but > > >packages like AnalyzeFMRI say that tcltk is not found. Do I need to do > > >more to get Tk GUIs working on RH9 or does the RPM not have tcltk support > > >built in (should I compile from source). Thanks in advance. > > > > There was in fact some discussion of this last month. I am not > > sure of the answer. But I installed 1.7.0 from the RPM for RH 9, > > and I got the same error message when trying to get Rcmdr to > > work. I did have tcl and tk installed. Unfortunately, I did not > > do a properly controlled experiment. I first installed tcllib, > > which was not installed originally. (That didn't help, by > > itself.) Then I re-installed R _from source_ and then everything > > worked. But I did have the basic vanilla installation of RH 9, > > and I did have this problem. So you aren't the only one. > > > > I still don't know whether tcllib is necessary, and whether the > > RPM itself installs different things depending on what is on the > > system. (I would assume not, but I'm not sure.) > > It shouldn't, but the RPM may be different depending on what was > present on the system upon which it was built. Martyn may have been > building on a system where tcl/tk wasn't installed, or -- there's a > bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com on this -- the build was adversely > affected by incorrectness of the tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh scripts. > > A fairly easy experiment would be to rebuild from the source RPM on > your own system. Since this builds an RPM, it will retain the > upgradability etc. of the "official" RPM. Could you try and tell us > whether the problem remains? (Don't forget that you need a bunch of > "-devel" packages installed.)
I have rebuilt the RPM of R 1.7.0 for Red Hat 9 with tcltk support. (R-1.7.0-2.i386.rpm). It should be available on CRAN in a day or two. I apologise for this oversight. Martyn ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help