R GUI for Linux?

Thanks for the tip. I thought that 'Base' files were installed already
but I know better now. Unfortunately, I'm still not up and running yet.
Since I don't have access to the subject machine at the moment, I'll be
even more vague than usual.

I installed the development versions of tcltk and specified the
locations for the *.sh files, the *.h files, and both of the individual
directories in /usr/lib. Based on my reading of one of the *.sh files,
it looks like I can specify multiple directories for a configuration
variable by putting them in quotes and leaving a space in between like
'path1 path2'. My reward was that ./configure didn't complain about
searching for any tcltk files and I got the clear message that R
couldn't compile/link to tcltk. Hmph. <grin>

Next steps when I get home tonight:
(a) Replace library locations in /usr/lib with those in /usr/share
(b) Include all four library locations
(c) Wait until Fedora Core 4 comes out in a couple of weeks, wipe my
drive, and start all over again.

Any other suggestions? Thanks again.

Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Simpson [mailto:gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:30 AM
To: White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
Cc: John Fox; sander at oomvanlieshout.net; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R GUI for Linux?

John:

Thank you for your interest. After more investigation I see that my
problem is with linking tcltk to R. tcl 8.4.7-2 and tk 8.4.7-2 are
tuned to fc3 (Fedora Core 3) and part of the standard installation.
However, required file locations are different than what is expected
by R. I set the locations for tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh using
./configure but R tells me something to the effect that Tcl and Tk
major or minor versions disagree. Your help or the help of others on
the R-List would be appreciated. FYI, I am also including the
locations of important files and directories.

tclConfig.sh: /usr/lib tkConfig.sh:  /usr/lib tcl library:
/usr/lib/tcl8.4 (symbolically linked from /usr/share/tcl8.4) tk
library:   /usr/lib/tk8.4 (separate copy in /usr/share/tk8.4) tcl.h:
I can't find it with full drive search tk.h:         I can't find it
with full drive search

You need to install the devel packages for tcl and tk to get those 
header files.

on FC3, the preferred updater is yum so in a terminal:

su -c "yum install tcl-devel tk-devel"

Should install the *.h files for you.

HTH

Gav