Message-ID: <2279.192.168.65.113.1124930501.squirrel@homebase.wehi.edu.au>
Date: 2005-08-25T00:41:41Z
From: James Wettenhall
Subject: Rcmdr/tcltk help ...
In-Reply-To: <2053.192.168.65.113.1124929698.squirrel@homebase.wehi.edu.au>
Hi again,
> As I said, I haven't had much success getting fink Tcl/Tk to work with R's
> tcltk package, but I guess it should be possible.
Actually, maybe "should" is a bit strong (or in fact just plain wrong).
Some software installed on Unix-like systems (including MacOSX) is just
not relocatable, i.e. if Fink installs something in /sw/ and R doesn't
know to look for it there, then there may be no way to get around this
without rebuilding either Tcl/Tk or R from source - it's certainly
dangerous to try to copy things from /sw/ to /usr/local/. Much better to
install the Tcl/Tk bundled with R or install it from source as described
in the R for Mac OS X FAQ under "X11 TclTk headers and libraries
(optional)".
Best wishes,
James