On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: > On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent > difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former > to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command > library(tcltk) elicits the following response: > 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' > > After first encountering this problem, I took the following steps: [snip] > 4. Set a tcltk USE flag for R by appending the line dev-lang/R tcltk > to my /etc/portage/package.use file.
eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact "tk" -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
