Thank you Brian and Simon for fixing these problems.
Best,
John
On 2021-09-18 2:20 a.m., Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 09/09/2021 19:03, John Fox wrote:
Dear Simon, Philippe, and list members,
I've encountered some Tcl/Tk-related issues with the Apple silicon
arm64 build of R 4.1.0 for macOS. These issues affect the Rcmdr
package, although they don't prevent it from working:
(1) Some fonts that are available for the Intel build appear to be
missing from the arm64 build. Compare the screen shots of the Rcmdr
main window at
<https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/x86_64-apple-darwin17.0.png>
(Intel build) and
<https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/aarch64-apple-darwin20.png>
(arm64 build). This problem is purely aesthetic.
(2) The Tcl/Tk Tktable package is apparently absent from the arm64
build but still present in the Intel build. The Rcmdr detects its
absence and suppresses some features (i.e., those requiring the Rcmdr
data editor). I understand that the Tktable package is problematic and
it may have been removed intentionally.
The Tcl/Tk Tablelist package would be a reasonable substitute, and
were it available, I could use it to restore the missing features in
the Rcmdr. I'm aware that Philippe Grosjean planned to incorporate
Tablelist in his tcltk2 package, but as far as I know, that plan
hasn't yet materialized. If I knew how to supply a Tcl/Tk package in
an R package, I could put Tablelist directly in the Rcmdr.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John
To close this circle, Simon has provided
https://mac.r-project.org/libs-arm64/tcltk-8.6.11-xft-darwin20.4-arm64.pkg
If you install that, it updates Tk and adds Tktable, solving both
problems. (As the Tcl/Tk installation is shared between R versions,
this will fix 4.1.0 as well as 4.1.1. It will be incorporated in future
releases.)
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