Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package? --- Summary

2011-04-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Rolf Turner wrote: Summary of what I've learned: (1) The tcltk package ***comes with R***; one does not install it from CRAN. (2) In order for it to work, you need to have the *development* version of tcltk installed on your system. (3) Under Ubuntu Linux you can obtain t

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package? --- Summary

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
Summary of what I've learned: (1) The tcltk package ***comes with R***; one does not install it from CRAN. (2) In order for it to work, you need to have the *development* version of tcltk installed on your system. (3) Under Ubuntu Linux you can obtain the aforesaid development version by:

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 13:49, Phil Spector wrote: Rolf - In order for R to build with tcltk support, the tcl/tk development packages need to be available when R is configured. This command apt-get install tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev will install the necessary development packages, but you'll need to reconf

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Phil Spector
Rolf - In order for R to build with tcltk support, the tcl/tk development packages need to be available when R is configured. This command apt-get install tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev will install the necessary development packages, but you'll need to reconfigure and rebuild R in order to get tcltk

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 13:23, Erik Iverson wrote: You probably need the tcl-dev and tk-dev (or similarly named) for your version of tcltk to compile. Those contain the development headers needed to compile programs against the tcltk library. You can look in the config.log file created by the R "configu

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 13:23, Erik Iverson wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:55 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:40, Erik Iverson wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: Rolf, What does capabilities("tcltk") return? FALSE I believe R needs to be compiled

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
In view of various bits of advice I've received I tried: (1) sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev The result: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done r-base is already the newest version. r-base-dev is already the newest version. The followin

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Erik Iverson
On 04/07/2011 07:55 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:40, Erik Iverson wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: Rolf, What does capabilities("tcltk") return? FALSE I believe R needs to be compiled with tcltk support for the package to w

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 12:40, Erik Iverson wrote: On 04/07/2011 07:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: Rolf, What does capabilities("tcltk") return? FALSE I believe R needs to be compiled with tcltk support for the package to work. Do you compile your own version or use

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: >> >> Rolf, >> >> What does >> >>  >  capabilities("tcltk") >> >> return? > > FALSE > >    cheers, > Try re-installng R using these instructions: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-n

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: >> >> Rolf, >> >> What does >> >>  >  capabilities("tcltk") >> >> return? > > FALSE > As others have indicated, your R was compiled without Tcl/Tk support. Most likely because Tcl/Tk was/is not installed o

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Steven McKinney
rce or binaries? Steven McKinney From: Rolf Turner [r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz] Sent: April 7, 2011 5:38 PM To: Steven McKinney Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package? On 08/04/11 12:31, Steven McKinney wrote: > Searchin

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Erik Iverson
On 04/07/2011 07:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: Rolf, What does > capabilities("tcltk") return? FALSE I believe R needs to be compiled with tcltk support for the package to work. Do you compile your own version or use a package manager (e.g., on Ubuntu)?

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 12:31, Steven McKinney wrote: Searching for tcltk on the BioConductor site yields CRAN - Package tcltk2 - http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tcltk2/ CRAN - Package tcltk2 tcltk2: Tcl/Tk Additions A series of additional Tcl commands and Tk widgets with style and various func

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 12:30, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Perhaps I'm being even thicker than usual, but I can't find the tcltk package on CRAN. There is a tcltk2 package, which says that it is a collection of supplements to tcltk, but I cannot see a just-

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Steven McKinney
Subject: [R] Where is the tcltk package? Perhaps I'm being even thicker than usual, but I can't find the tcltk package on CRAN. There is a tcltk2 package, which says that it is a collection of supplements to tcltk, but I cannot see a just-plain tcltk anywhere. If I try to install tcltk2

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
On 08/04/11 12:22, Erik Iverson wrote: Rolf, What does > capabilities("tcltk") return? FALSE cheers, Rolf Turner __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide ht

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > Perhaps I'm being even thicker than usual, but I can't find > the tcltk package on CRAN.  There is a tcltk2 package, which says > that it is a collection of supplements to tcltk, but I cannot > see a just-plain tcltk anywhere. > > If I try to

Re: [R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Erik Iverson
Rolf, What does > capabilities("tcltk") return? On 04/07/2011 07:15 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Perhaps I'm being even thicker than usual, but I can't find the tcltk package on CRAN. There is a tcltk2 package, which says that it is a collection of supplements to tcltk, but I cannot see a just-pla

[R] Where is the tcltk package?

2011-04-07 Thread Rolf Turner
Perhaps I'm being even thicker than usual, but I can't find the tcltk package on CRAN. There is a tcltk2 package, which says that it is a collection of supplements to tcltk, but I cannot see a just-plain tcltk anywhere. If I try to install tcltk2 (from the Linux command line, or using install.p