Installing the Rcmdr and tclk package

"Gerald" == Gerald Jean <Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca>
    on Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:32:43 -0500 writes:

Gerald> Hello R-users,
    Gerald> Version 1.8.1 on a 64-bit Solaris 5.8 OS

    Gerald> I am trying to instal the Rcmdr package for which the tclk package is
    Gerald> required.  Once both package installed I issued the command:

    >> library(tcltk)

    Gerald> and received the following error message

    Gerald> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
    Gerald> Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
    Gerald> Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed

    Gerald> Upon which I searched for Tcl and Tk on our system
    Gerald> and didn't find them, hence I requested the
    Gerald> admin. person to get them from the "sunfreeware"
    Gerald> site and install them.  The packages are now
    Gerald> installed under "/usr/local", same place than R is
    Gerald> installed.  If I open a shell and cd to this
    Gerald> directory and type "tcl" at the Unix prompt "tcl"
    Gerald> starts.  But if go back in R and try the
    Gerald> "library(tcltk)" command I receive the same error
    Gerald> message as above.

You need to re-install R.  Yours has "remembered" that tcl/tk is
not available.  In particular, do call  ./configure  again and probably
make will be sufficient (otherwise clean the whole installation
and configure; make; ...).

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Hello R-users,

Version 1.8.1 on a 64-bit Solaris 5.8 OS

I am trying to instal the Rcmdr package for which the tclk package is
required.  Once both package installed I issued the command:

library(tcltk)

and received the following error message

Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
      Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed

Upon which I searched for Tcl and Tk on our system and didn't find them,
hence I requested the admin. person to get them from the "sunfreeware" site
and install them.  The packages are now installed under "/usr/local", same
place than R is installed.  If I open a shell and cd to this directory and
type "tcl" at the Unix prompt "tcl" starts.  But if go back in R and try
the "library(tcltk)" command I receive the same error message as above.

I searched the "r-projec", the tcltk documentation and the mail archives in
the hope of finding out if environment variables needed to be set or if I
had missed something else, but I had no luck!

Tcl/Tk has to be available when you build R, not just at run time.

I am pretty sure that for a 64-bit build of R you need a 64-bit build of 
Tcl/Tk.

Anyone could point me in the right direction as what needs to be done so
Tcl and Tk become visible to R?

Rebuild R, preferably after compiling Tcl/Tk from the sources yourself (it 
is probably simpler than build R).

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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