Here's a very helpful reply from Jan de Leeuw to my question about trying to use Tktable with R in X11 on Mac OSX. I'll have to double-check with my I.T. administrators to find out which version of R is installed on the Macs, and make sure that R is not accessing both an Aqua version of Tcl/Tk AND an X11 version! Regards. James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:53:35 -0700 From: Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu> To: tcl-mac@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: James Wettenhall <wettenhall@wehi.edu.au> Subject: Re: [MACTCL] Re: systemWindowBody color There are three R's for OS X: the Carbon/CFM R (rapidly fading) which allows no Tcl/Tk interaction, the Darwin/X11 CLI version which you use with X11 Tcl/Tk from CVS or Fink, and the Aqua R (still in beta) which you use with the Aqua Tcl/Tk (currently does not work, but has worked in the past). You cannot use Aqua versions of Tcl/Tk with the Darwin/X11 version, because you will get into problems with the Aqua windowmanager (SetFrontProcess). What I have done in the past is use IDLE (the Python GUI with tkinter), load Rpy (the Python interface to R), and then use Aqua Tcl/Tk from R running in IDLE. This works, but it is needlessly complicated. The Aqua R, when fixed for R-1.8.0, will be the better solution. See http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub as well as http://www.economia.unimi.it/R/ === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
[R-gui] Re: [MACTCL] Re: systemWindowBody color (fwd)
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