That should not be necessary if you used options(gsubfn.engine = "R")
since it should not be using tcltk in the first place. Perhaps you are using an old version of gsubfn -- the latest on CRAN is 0.5-3. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Lars Dalby <lars.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter > > Spot on! You where absolutely right. After installing the tcltk bits > it worked just fine. > > Thank you very much! > > Lars > > On Aug 17, 4:36 pm, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry to chime in late (for some reason, I was not at the Mac when this came >> in originally). >> >> I can't reproduce the situation. One guess is that you haven't installed the >> tcltk bits, as indicated on thehttp://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx/page. >> >> -pd >> >> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Lars Dalby wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi >> >> > @ Andrew: Did you get this problem solved? >> > I am having similar problems and have tried to work around it using >> > options(gsubfn.engine = "R") as suggested by Gabor. >> > However, this don't solve on my machine. R just freezes up trying to >> > execute read.csv.sql() >> >> > On OSX 10.6.4, R 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 64bit >> >> > Any help is much appreciated! >> >> > Lars >> >> > On Jul 28, 9:41 pm, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM, AndrewPage <savejar...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >> >> >>> Recently, I've been trying to use packages in R that require loading the >> >>> Tcl/Tk interface. However, I get a strange result and a crash that I >> >>> haven't been able to find discussion about on these boards (or any >> >>> others). >> >> >>> When I enter library(tcltk), it reads "Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... ", >> >>> but >> >>> then never says "done" or displays some sort of error message. Looks >> >>> like >> >>> this: >> >> >>>> x11() >> >>>> library(tcltk) >> >>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... >> >> >>> Now you can type additional commands in, at your peril! For example, if >> >>> I >> >>> type in the text "library", nothing happens, but "library(" causes R to >> >>> freeze up irreparably, with "executing: >> >>> try(gsub('\\s+','',paste(capture.output(print(args(library)))),collapse=")) >> >>> ,silent=TRUE)" >> >>> displayed at the bottom. When this happens, there's nothing you can do >> >>> but >> >>> restart R because it's completely frozen. >> >> >>> I'm running R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-07-27 r52627) >> >> >>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5603) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] >> >> >>> with XQuartz 2.3.5 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple53) >> >> >>> on a mac (snow leopard) >> >> >>> Thanks for any help/suggestions in advance, >> >> >>> Andrew >> >> >> One thought is that if this is to use gsubfn or sqldf (which uses >> >> gsubfn) then you can get them to not use thetcltkcode but use R code >> >> instead by either of these two means: >> >> >> 1. issue the command: >> >> options(gsubfn.engine = "R") >> >> before issuing your library(sqldf) or library(gsubfn) command. You >> >> can put the options command in your .Rprofile if you like and then you >> >> will have it on every session. >> >> >> or >> >> >> 2. use a build of R that has notcltkin it. In that case it will >> >> recognize it and switch to using R. I believe one such build exists >> >> for the Mac. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing >> >> listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> >> PLEASE do read the posting >> >> guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > ______________________________________________ >> > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list >> >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://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.