[R] help with library(tcltk)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:03:38PM +0100, antonio wrote:
> I have tried several times to run this library and I get the following 
> message:
> 
> > library(tcltk) 
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :  
>        invalid command name "tcl_findLibrary" 
> Error in library(tcltk) : 
> .First.lib failed 
> >
> 
> I have checked either the tcl and tk libraries and they are correctly 
> installed (/usr/lib/). I have other program (Grass) that make use of them and 
> it works correctly.

That alone is not meaningful. More important is whether tcl/tk was found
when R was compiled. You can look at

> capabilities("tcltk")

if you R binary has been built with tcl/tk support.  

Having said that, the snippet above suggest that tcltk was compiled in, but
might have broken later. Try to locate the tcltk.so [ my system has it at
/usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so as R lives below /usr/lib/R here ]
and run ldd on it as in

ldd /usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so 

You need to see the libtcl and libtk libraries resolved for tcltk to work.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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