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 the http://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-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. -- 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-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.
