Ted, If you are missing a shared library (libtk8.3.so) then you could just find the appropriate rpm on the RedHat9 CDs, perhaps tk-8.3.5-88.i386.rpm in /RedHat/RPMS on the second CD, and install it with sudo rpm -i.
BUT, there are some known bugs in the Tcl/Tk that comes with Redhat 9 (which don't exist in previous Redhat distributions) : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89098 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101678 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100793 http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/tech/rh9-tcltk/ What I did recently on Redhat 9 is install Tcl/Tk 8.4 from source (configure;make;make install; for Tcl, then for Tk) and then install R from source (configure;make;make install). You can get Tcl/Tk source from www.tcl.tk and to build them you need the X11 developer's kit which can be installed from rpm off the Redhat9 CDs : Install XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm which requires fontconfig-devel-2.1-9.i386.rpm and freetype-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm. Installing R from source will put it (by default) in /usr/local/bin/R rather than /usr/bin/R HTH, James ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help