Thank you Brian and Simon for fixing these problems. Best, John
On 2021-09-18 2:20 a.m., Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 09/09/2021 19:03, John Fox wrote:
Dear Simon, Philippe, and list members, I've encountered some Tcl/Tk-related issues with the Apple silicon arm64 build of R 4.1.0 for macOS. These issues affect the Rcmdr package, although they don't prevent it from working: (1) Some fonts that are available for the Intel build appear to be missing from the arm64 build. Compare the screen shots of the Rcmdr main window at <https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/x86_64-apple-darwin17.0.png> (Intel build) and <https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/aarch64-apple-darwin20.png> (arm64 build). This problem is purely aesthetic. (2) The Tcl/Tk Tktable package is apparently absent from the arm64 build but still present in the Intel build. The Rcmdr detects its absence and suppresses some features (i.e., those requiring the Rcmdr data editor). I understand that the Tktable package is problematic and it may have been removed intentionally. The Tcl/Tk Tablelist package would be a reasonable substitute, and were it available, I could use it to restore the missing features in the Rcmdr. I'm aware that Philippe Grosjean planned to incorporate Tablelist in his tcltk2 package, but as far as I know, that plan hasn't yet materialized. If I knew how to supply a Tcl/Tk package in an R package, I could put Tablelist directly in the Rcmdr. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John
To close this circle, Simon has provided https://mac.r-project.org/libs-arm64/tcltk-8.6.11-xft-darwin20.4-arm64.pkg If you install that, it updates Tk and adds Tktable, solving both problems.? (As the Tcl/Tk installation is shared between R versions, this will fix 4.1.0 as well as 4.1.1.? It will be incorporated in future releases.)