[BioC] unable to install qvalue..

[Simon Anders]

Hi Vince

On 02/21/2011 04:05 PM, Vincent Carey wrote:
> At least in R 2.12, tcltk package source is in src/library of the source
> R distribution.  There is no need to distribute it at CRAN AFAICT.

Yes, this explains it. Sorry for missing this obvious point.


I didn't have the 'tk-dev' package installed on my Ubuntu when I 
compiled my R, so it was skipped, and I guess this is also the original 
poster's problem.

(Not wanting to compile all of R again, I just tried to install the 
tcltk package separately from my R source tree but that does not seem 
entirely straight-forward, because the Makefile in there need to be 
regenerated from the global configure script, and simply re-running does 
not do the job. Ok, I guess rebuilding everything is not a big deal and 
easiest.)


The remaining issue is that the installation of 'qvalue' gives this 
misleading error message:
   Error : package 'tcltk' does not have a name space

Other packages, e.g., 'tckltk2', properly report:

   Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
      Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
   Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded


But, I guess, the best would be if John dropped the dependency on 
'qvalue'. I don't suppose that we should take for granted that the 
average user has Tk available. (Is it bundled to the R installer for 
Windows?)

   Simon