installing R and Rcmdr onMacOS 10.3.9

Dear Karla,

It's likely that you don't have Tcl/Tk installed on your Mac.

I know that it's possible to get the Rcmdr working on a Mac, but  
that doing
so requires some additional steps. I'm not a Mac user, so I'm  
afraid that I
can't be of much direct help. If someone who's using the Rcmdr on a  
Mac is
willing to prepare notes about how to get it installed and working,  
I'd
gladly post them on my web site.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Karla Van  
Meter
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:43 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] installing R and Rcmdr onMacOS 10.3.9

I have been trying to install the new, patched R 2.1.0a along
with the Rcmdr on my mac. I got the basic R package
installed, but in Project Manager, the tcltk package will not  
install.

  When I downloaded the Rcmdr binary package from the
Berkeley site, it did not show up on the package installer
list until a second attempt, but it still does not show up on
the package manager list.

On the package manager list, the tcltk package is listed as
''not installed'. When I click on it to install, it won't. I tried  
the
library(tcltk) command, which failed.

The following is the output from the last command:

library(Rcmdr)

Loading required package: tcltk
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
as.logical(now)) :
    unable to load shared library
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/
tcltk.so':
   dlcompat: dyld: /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R can't open
library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib  (No such file or
directory, errno = 2)
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded  > library(tcltk)
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
as.logical(now)) :
    unable to load shared library
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/tcltk/libs/
tcltk.so':
   dlcompat: dyld: /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R can't open
library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib  (No such file or
directory, errno = 2)
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'

I am NOT a developer, but an application-oriented grad student.

I'd appreciate any help that will make Rcmdr work.

Thanks,

Karla Van Meter
tel: 707.765.0420
net: kcvanmeter at ucdavis.edu