On Jan 3, 2013, at 13:13 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 03/01/2013 11:42, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 13-01-03 6:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> [snipped]
>> I think it's unlikely that we will upgrade. The binaries available at >> that link do not have a license that would allow distribution with R, >> and we no longer have the facilities (specific compiler, time, etc.) to >> compile it ourselves. I haven't tried myself, but my understanding is >> that the sources are not compatible with our compiler suite. > > More specifically, when last checked the sources do compile but do not work > when loaded into R as memory gets corrupted. > > Note that the version of Tcl/Tk made available for the CRAN Mac binary is > older than that for Windows. Of course anyone is welcome to try their hand at getting Tcl/Tk to build properly with the R compiler suite. And/or dig into what might be getting in the way. Or, for that matter, build against the ActiveTcl binaries; it is only redistribution that is disallowed --- it is Free as in Beer, but not as in Speech. (Looks like MacPorts moved to Tcl/Tk 8.6. I'll see if it works with their R port.) -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
