[R] R with tcl/tk 8.5

[Prof Brian Ripley]

When Tcl/Tk 8.5 exists please ask again. (It is currently in *alpha*: do 
you expect to use alpha software with a stable package?)

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, JeeBee wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Is it possible to tell R to use tcl/tk 8.5?
> My R package seems to depend on libtcl8.4.so.

It may work if you compile from the sources.

> However, in Windows it seems to be possible to set
> TCL_LIBRARY and MY_TCLTK.

Only to a binary installation of Tcl/Tk 8.4, or at least, not of 8.3.

> Is there something similar possible in Linux?
>
> I have installed:
>
> $ rpm -q R
> R-2.3.1-1.fc5
>
> $ locate libtcl8
> /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so
> /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.so
>
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