On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:13, James Wettenhall wrote: > > I've been trying to install R on Red Hat Linux 9 for some > > potential users of my R/TclTk application. I tried using the > > rpm for R 1.7.1 for Red Hat Linux 9. It told me that I needed: > > libtcl8.3.so > > so I looked for a binary release of Tcl 8.3.x on > > http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.3.html > > but found that the link to the Tcl 8.3.x binaries pointed to > > ActiveTcl 8.4.x . I couldn't see the old 8.3.x binaries > > anywhere. ActiveTcl is a nice easy way to get the extensions > > like Tktable, but it seemed to be the wrong version. > [....] > > I cannot resist pointing that after > > $ apt-get install tktable > > everything just works under Debian, in this case the "testing" flavour that > will eventually morph into the next Debian stable release: > > $ R --slave > > library(tcltk) > > tt <- tktoplevel() > > tclRequire("Tktable") > <Tcl> 2.8 > > table1 <- tkwidget(tt,"table") > > tkpack(table1) > <Tcl> > > Same with bwidget, iwidgets and a few other tcl/tk extensions. All available > straight from the Debian mirrors. > > Hth, Dirk
While I don't use apt-get, I did just download the TkTable 2.8 tarball from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464 did the ./configure, make, make install process (about 2 minutes) and I get the same output as Dirk above (including the nice table widget) under RH 9 using the default RH installation of tcl/tk (8.3). So the ActiveTcl version 8.4 is not required. I suspect this gives further support to the likely key issue being the resultant mix of tcl/tk versions that James is dealing with. HTH, Marc ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
