Updated nightly build no longer has the TclTk problem, packages are installing properly. Thanks very much for the fix.
SteveM -----Original Message----- From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/6/2008 1:41 PM To: Steven McKinney; Steve Lianoglou Cc: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch Mail list Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit R tcltk library problem: Symbol not found: _Tk_Init On Nov 6, 2008, at 16:29 , Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > >> I then installed R.app from R-GUI-5256-2.8-leopard-Deployment64.dmg >> and installed a number of bioconductor libraries from source. >> I advanced farther in getting 64-bit R and libraries up and >> running than at any previous attempt, and thought I finally had >> functional 64 bit R available on my Mac. >> >> But I keep hitting a tcltk problem that I can't seem to solve. >> Whenever I'm trying to install a package that requires tcltk >> the installation fails with this message: >> >> Loading required package: tcltk >> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = >> DLLpath, ...) : >> unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ >> Resources/library/tcltk/libs/ppc64/tcltk.so': >> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/ >> ppc64/tcltk.so, 10): Symbol not found: _Tk_Init >> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ >> tcltk/libs/ppc64/tcltk.so >> Expected in: dynamic lookup > > I know this doesn't really help you at all, but it seems that tcltk > installed smoothly on my machine (Mac Pro) and I was able to compile > a 4-way fat binary. > Indeed, this issue is specific to ppc64. The problem is that it's not possible to build ppc64 binaries of R on an Intel machine so we have to use another machine for the ppc64 build and that machine didn't have the latest Tcl/Tk installed. This should be fixed now so please try the updated nightly build tomorrow. Thanks, Simon > In trying to be a little helpful, though ... > >> Initially I installed several Bioconductor packages, >> using biocLite() e.g. >> biocLite("beadarray", type = "source") > > You don't actually need to install bioconductor packages from source > -- they're already compiled as a 4-way fat binary for Leopard as of > bioconductor 2.3 ... while it doesn't help you much here, perhaps > it's good to know to save you install/compile time in the future. > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > > http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
