On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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)
> 

No, because it doesn't work with R.app since that Tcl/Tk build assumes it's 
controlling the application and system event loop.

Cheers,
S


> 
> 
>> 
>> 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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