Dear David, On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:04:18 -0700 David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:47 PM, John Fox wrote: >
. . . > > It also seems apparent from the error message that there's a mismatch > > between the version of Tcl/Tk, presumably the one supplied with the R > > distribution, and the version of X-Windows. > > That is not what I am reading. libfreetype.6 version 13 is the reported > problem with a need to update to version 14. > Do you know where libfreetype.6 comes from? Is it installed independently of Tcl/Tk and XQuartz? If so, do you know how to update it? . . . > I'm not really a student but maybe this will be useful anyway. There is a > version of Tk at: > > http://r.research.att.com/src/tk8.6.0-src.tar.gz > > ... which appears to be the most up-to-date version. I'm actually running > version 8.5 with OSX 10.7.5 > Version 8.6-0 of Tcl/Tk for X-Windows is included in the R 3.0.1 installer for Mac OS X. Is it possible that it doesn't get installed if there's already a Tcl/Tk for X-Windows installed? . . . > > The error message below says that libfreetype.6 is an old version and that > you need version 14.0 for libtk8.6 > > From Unix cmd line: > > otool -L /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib > > # ---- reports ___________ > /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib: > /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, > current version 16.0.0) > /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current > version 1.2.7) > /opt/local/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current > version 1.0.6) > /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current > version 125.2.11) > So tcltk and the Rcmdr 2.0-0 work on your system because you have a sufficiently up-to-date libfreetype.6. It would be additionally helpful to be able to answer the following questions: (1) Why is it that some users have old versions of libfreetype.6. (2) Why doesn't installing the newest versions of R (which includes Tcl/Tk) and XQuartz, not solve this problem? (3) What can users experiencing this problem do to fix it? If I knew the answers to these questions, I could update the Rcmdr installation notes to help users avoid the problem. Thank you for your help, John _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
