[R] tcl/tk & Windows2000?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Mark Myatt <mark at myatt.demon.co.uk> writes:

> C. Schulz <ozric at web.de> writes:
> >Hello,
> >i have some problems to run tcltk/R
> >on  with Win2000.
> >With Win98 i have no problems !?
> >
> >When i do this in R, i get no message-error & tcl/tk
> >is really here !
> >
> >Sys.putenv("TCL_LIBRARY"="C:/tcl/lib/tcl83")
> >
> >,but after i use :
> >library(tcltk)
> >,i get :
> >Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> >unable to load shared library "D:/XY/rw1030/library/tcltk/libs/tcl83":
> >LoadLibrary failure: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.
> >Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed
> >
> >Tcl/Tk was correct installed, i used ActiveState TCL/TK, too.
> >Is it possible i have copy some files to /winnt/system32 folder ?
> 
> Not of direct help but I find that Win2000 stops setup routines writing
> to both the system directory and the registry. I think you will need to
> log in as a user with write rights to the system directories and re-
> install your TCL/TK support libraries. Don't overwrite any newer files
> as many of the system .DLLs are win2000 specific.

Hmm. This looks more like it is ignoring the TCL_LIBRARY setting.
Perhaps you should try to set it in a different way (in the .Renviron
file etc.).

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