On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:05 AM, John Fox wrote: > 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. >
guess: they don't use Software Update and thus have outdated system libraries > (2) Why doesn't installing the newest versions of R (which includes Tcl/Tk) > and XQuartz, not solve this problem? > guess: they are running an older version or didn't install R properly from the CRAN package > (3) What can users experiencing this problem do to fix it? > Run Software Update for (1) , re-install R for (2)? We have only 3rd hand report here so we're reduced to guessing so far. As I said, one important thing is that we uses system X11 and not XQuartz so installing XQuartz has no effect if there is a system X11 installed. However, on an up-todate system there should be no problems. Cheers, S > 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
