On 4 Mar 2014, at 18:41, Davor Cubranic <cubra...@stat.ubc.ca> wrote:

> If you don’t care about Tcl/Tk, you could also install R without it. Just 
> choose “Customize” in the installer and unselect it.

isn’t there a different tcl/tk framework that one can use anyway?  I’m 
referring to the active state one 
(http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads)

BW

F



> 
> Davor
> 
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Simon,
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> Unfortunately HB installs by default in /usr/local and requires full 
>>> control so you cannot have native libraries and HB in the same place at the 
>>> same time. So essentially you have to pick one or the other. There are two 
>>> options:
>>> 
>>> a) install HB in another place. This allows you to keep native libraries in 
>>> /usr/local and parallel HB. HB is less tested that way, though, so that's 
>>> why HB is shy of recommending it.
>>> 
>>> b) ignore HB's moaning. It should be ok as long as you don't install tcl/tk 
>>> via HB. It may get complicated if dependencies detect tcl/tk so for safety 
>>> you could rename the .pc files and the t*Config.sh files if you don't 
>>> expect to compile R packages that depend on tcl/tk.
>> 
>> I am ignoring the moanings of brew doctor.  I generally try and avoid 
>> compiling R packages if at all possible, and I never used stuff that uses 
>> tcl/tk (that I know of).  My main concern is that I want to install SciPy 
>> and Python 3 (assuming this can be done in a way that will not get Mavericks 
>> throw a fit) and that might — or not — get some tcl/tk action in.  If not, 
>> R.app and HB can live together for all I care.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> F
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> BW
>>>> 
>>>> F
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> PS  I also asked on apple stack, but I haven’t go any reasonable answer 
>>>> thus far and I’d rather get going.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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