R 2.7.2 and Ubuntu / tcltk issues
Thank you. I preferred to upgrade to Hardy. Note that I had to eliminate tcl8.5 (the upgrade left the old version) and then to make: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tcl8.5 sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-dev <- this one is apprently required, and! sudo apt-get install r-base sudo apt-get install r-base-dev sudo apt-get install r-base-html and then, R running well with tcl/tk 8.5. Many thanks for your help. Philippe
Vincent Goulet wrote:
Le lun. 6 oct. ? 10:33, Michael Rutter a ?crit :
Philippe, The solution (I hope) to your problem is to enable the hardy-backports in your package manager.
Just to confirm and clarify (since Philippe is on Gutsy, not Hardy). Indeed, R 2.7.2 on Gutsy depends on Tcl/Tk 8.5 that is obtained from the backports repositories.
For instructions on how to do that, check this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports If that doesn't solve the problem, we will investigate further. We mention this on the ubuntu cran pages, but we may need to highlight that portion of the instructions.
I added a note to this effect. The new README is on its way to CRAN now. Vincent
As for your recent lattice problem, not sure what is causing that. Maybe Vincent has some insight. Hope this helps, Michael Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Philippe, Thanks for the bug report to r-help. In the future, please consider r-sig-debian which is much more on topic and much more likely to be read attentively by the three of us. Vincent/Michael, Could you have a look? 'library(tclrk)' does fail for me too at work (using 2.7.2. on ubunut) but I am currently using the Cygwin X11 connection and having all sorts of issues with that. We did test this post tlc/tk 8.5 switch as I recall all/some of us commenting on how much prettier the new 8.5 'themed' widgets look. I did run at least one or two demos(). Also, I tossed up 2.8.0 beta as of today into Debian unstable before I left for work. I don't think you need to release that to Ubuntu yet, but you may just want to build once or twice before Oct 20 so that we get all surprises out of the way. Or so the theory goes... Cheers, Dirk
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