Adrienne Wootten
Graduate Research Assistant
State Climate Office of North Carolina
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Arnaud Mosnier <a.mosnier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
>
> Since a long time now, I have the following error when I want to load
> the tcltk library in R 64 bit.
>
>
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ...Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace()
> for 'tcltk', details:
> ?call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
> ?error: unable to load shared object 'C:/Program
> Files/R/R-2.13.0/library/tcltk/libs/x64/tcltk.dll':
> ?LoadLibrary failure: ?This application has failed to start because
> the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the
> application may fix this problem.
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'tcltk'
>
>
> sessionInfo() gives
>
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 ?LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.13.0
>
>
> The problem does not occur with the 32 bit version of R, thus, it is
> probably linked to the 64 version of Tcltk...
>
> I already tried:
> - ?to uninstall then reinstall R (changing version too...)
> - ?install ActiveTcl8.5.9.2.294317-win32-x86_64-threaded.exe (I also
> tried installing previous version of ActiveTcl)
>
> ... without results !
>
> ?"Reinstalling the application may fix this problem" ?... I agree, but
> what should I reinstall ?
>
> Any suggestions ??
>
> Arnaud
>
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