[R] tcltk loading in R-2.2.1 from src
Hi, Having trouble loading tcltk in R 2.2.1 built from source. ./configure, make, make check, and make install run ok. library(tcltk) Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' even though it is listed in library() output. I have the same problem even if i compile with options: ./configure --with-tcltk --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh Is there a dep for R 2.2.1 on a specific version of tcl? Any hints on this issue appreciated. running on linux (2.4.21-4) version: rpm -qa | grep tcl tcl-devel-8.3.5-92 tcl-8.3.5-92 Specifically, the package pbatR loads this library during installation. Thanks, Patrice -- Patrice Seyed Linux System Administrator - LinGA RHCE, SCSA Boston University Medical Campus __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] tcltk loading in R-2.2.1 from src
Patrice - I had a very similar problem using TCL/TK 8.3. Below is the email I sent to my computing group at work about how I fixed it. Note that since my TCL/TK header (.h) files were in an odd location, the first step probably isn't relevant for you. But I bet the second step is. -- I believe I have found the solution to this problem. There were 2 steps I took to get a build of R in my home directory that properly uses Tcl/Tk 8.3 under Linux. The first was setting an environment variable to let R know where the tcl.h and tk.h files reside. This environment variable was TCLTK_CPPFLAGS and is set to -I/s/include . This can bet set in the config.site in R's build directory also. (NOTE to R-help: The above is site specific to my location, /s is for software on the network.) Second, there is some problem with the way R interacts with the tkConfig.sh file in /s/lib (or wherever your .sh file is located). It comes from the following line in tkConfig.sh. TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed' The # character, indicating a comment, is somehow misinterpreted by the configure script which breaks the Tcl/Tk functionality. I was able to get around this by simply removing the comment and leaving it as TK_XINCLUDES='' That got me a working version of the newest R using Tcl/Tk. I'm not sure if Tcl/Tk version 8.4 would still put that comment in there, I believe it's changed though, so you'd only have to follow the first step to get R compiled with Tcl/Tk support. I found reference to this problem on the R mailing list, it appears to only affect certain installations of Tcl/Tk. - HTH, Erik Iverson Patrice Seyed wrote: Hi, Having trouble loading tcltk in R 2.2.1 built from source. ./configure, make, make check, and make install run ok. library(tcltk) Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' even though it is listed in library() output. I have the same problem even if i compile with options: ./configure --with-tcltk --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh Is there a dep for R 2.2.1 on a specific version of tcl? Any hints on this issue appreciated. running on linux (2.4.21-4) version: rpm -qa | grep tcl tcl-devel-8.3.5-92 tcl-8.3.5-92 Specifically, the package pbatR loads this library during installation. Thanks, Patrice __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] tcltk loading in R-2.2.1 from src
Patrice Seyed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Having trouble loading tcltk in R 2.2.1 built from source. ./configure, make, make check, and make install run ok. library(tcltk) Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' even though it is listed in library() output. Well, the package is there, as a stub to tell you that it doesn't work I have the same problem even if i compile with options: ./configure --with-tcltk --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh In both cases, do check the configure output for clues. Is there a dep for R 2.2.1 on a specific version of tcl? Any hints on this issue appreciated. Anything later than 8.1 or so should work. Some old versions had bugs in tclConfig.sh/tkConfig.sh which didn't quite give out enough info to tell configure where to find the include files and libraries. I'm not quite sure when that was, but we're up to 8.4.9 now and tcl/tk has a notoriously slow release cycle, so 8.3.5 sound quite ancient running on linux (2.4.21-4) version: Of which distribution? rpm -qa | grep tcl tcl-devel-8.3.5-92 tcl-8.3.5-92 and rpm -qa | grep tk says what? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
