[R] tcltk

[John P. Burkett]

On an x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having trouble with 
tcltk in R-2.6.1 (the latest version available through Gentoo's 
emerge/portage system). The problem first came to my attention when 
"install.packages("Rmetrics")" produced the following error message:
Loading required package: tcltk
Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
   Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
Error: package 'tcltk' could not be loaded

Then I tried "library(tcltk)" and again got the last 3 lines shown 
above. Doing "emerge --search tcl" shows that dev-lang/tcl 8.4.18 and
dev-tcltk/tcllib 1.6.1 are installed.

I would be most grateful for suggestions for diagnosing and fixing this 
problem.

Best regards,
John

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John P. Burkett
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
and Department of Economics
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881-0808
USA

phone (401) 874-9195