thanks to all! choosing to install tcltk while installing R did the trick. I still ended up installing a lot of the Rcmdr dependencies by hand (may just have been too impatient waiting for it to do it automatically), but it's working now (with the exception of rgl, which I will follow up separately elsewhere).
Ben Bolker Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > What you do is this > 1) Make sure that X11 (and you probably want all of the Xcode cd) is > installed. You do not need to reinstall the OS. The best thing is to > download Xcode 2.1 from Apples website and start installing (remember > to choose X11 under "custom" I think). At 680MB it is a massive > download though. > 2) Install the R.dmg image from CRAN. When you do so, you have the > option of choosing "custom" install. Under custom options you can > choose tcltk (and one other thing). Choose both. > 3) remember to have X11 open when you do the library(tcltk) > > You might have to remove the tcltk libraries you installed yourself, > but I do not really know... > > Kasper > > > > On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> I blithely told a student that Rcmdr would be a good way for him >> to do some statistical analysis (on his brand new OS X.4 system). >> >> He installed R and I helped him install Rcmdr. >> We looked at the FAQ and realized we needed to reinstall the OS to >> include X11. >> We reinstalled R (which didn't work after the OS reinstall) and >> reinstalled Rcmdr. >> Then we got the following error (see below) from tcltk. >> We downloaded fink. Attempted to reinstall tcltk, apparently >> successfully. >> Still getting the error message. >> (We're starting R from a terminal window on the advice of a >> message somewhere in the R archives.) >> >> I'm feeling on a bit of a downward spiral here ... I wanted this >> to be a "see, open source software can solve all your problems and >> it's easy to get started ..." experience and that's not how it's >> turning out. >> >> Has anyone seen this? Can you help? Things we should look for? >> Is there an obvious environment variable that's unset? >> Skimmed the MacOS FAQ and searched the R archives and didn't see >> anything obvious, apologies >> if I missed something. >> >> sincerely, >> Ben Bolker >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: R text >> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:11:54 -0500 >> From: Adrian Stier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >> Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 >> >> [ cut out R boilerplate] >> >> >>> library(tcltk) >>> >> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in fun(...) : Can't find a usable >> init.tcl in the following directories: >> @TCL_IN_FRAMEWORK@ @TCL_IN_FRAMEWORK@ >> >> >> >> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly. >> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk' >> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk' >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
