Patrice - I had a very similar problem using TCL/TK 8.3. Below is the email I sent to my computing group at work about how I fixed it. Note that since my TCL/TK header (.h) files were in an odd location, the first step probably isn't relevant for you. But I bet the second step is.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- I believe I have found the solution to this problem. There were 2 steps I took to get a build of R in my home directory that properly uses Tcl/Tk 8.3 under Linux. The first was setting an environment variable to let R know where the tcl.h and tk.h files reside. This environment variable was TCLTK_CPPFLAGS and is set to -I/s/include . This can bet set in the config.site in R's build directory also. (NOTE to R-help: The above is site specific to my location, /s is for software on the network.) Second, there is some problem with the way R interacts with the tkConfig.sh file in /s/lib (or wherever your .sh file is located). It comes from the following line in tkConfig.sh. TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed' The "#" character, indicating a comment, is somehow misinterpreted by the configure script which breaks the Tcl/Tk functionality. I was able to get around this by simply removing the comment and leaving it as TK_XINCLUDES='' That got me a working version of the newest R using Tcl/Tk. I'm not sure if Tcl/Tk version 8.4 would still put that comment in there, I believe it's changed though, so you'd only have to follow the first step to get R compiled with Tcl/Tk support. I found reference to this problem on the R mailing list, it appears to only affect certain installations of Tcl/Tk. --------------------------------------------------------------------- HTH, Erik Iverson Patrice Seyed wrote: > Hi, > > Having trouble loading tcltk in R 2.2.1 built from source. > > ./configure, make, make check, and make install run ok. > > > > library(tcltk) > Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : > Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system > Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' > > even though it is listed in library() output. > > I have the same problem even if i compile with options: > ./configure --with-tcltk --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh > --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh > > Is there a dep for R 2.2.1 on a specific version of tcl? Any hints on > this issue appreciated. > > running on linux (2.4.21-4) version: > rpm -qa | grep tcl > tcl-devel-8.3.5-92 > tcl-8.3.5-92 > > Specifically, the package pbatR loads this library during installation. > > Thanks, > Patrice > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html