[R] R hanging after loading tcltk

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Salkind, Lou" <Lou-Salkind at deshaw.com> writes:

> On R 1.3 / RH 7.1 / i386 (compiled with shared library support), I typed
> * library(tcltk)
> * help("some nonsensical string")
> 
> and R never returned a prompt (but not consuming any CPU cycles).  If  tcltk
> is not loaded, I get the expected help error message, a prompt, and can
> continue my session as expected.  
> Any ideas?  I am running tcl 8.3.3.2.
> I would assume this has something to do with event handlers...

Not unlikely, but AFAICS RH 7.1 ships with tcl-8.3.1, so perhaps
something about your Tcl setup is confusing matters?

I cant seem to reproduce that effect with a stock RH7.1 and the most
recent r-patched:

$ bin/R -q --vanilla
> library(tcltk)
> help("nonsense stuff")
Error in help("nonsense stuff") : No documentation for `nonsense
stuff' in specified packages and libraries:
  you could try `help.search("nonsense stuff")'


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