[R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system

[Roland Rau]

Hi,

have a look here:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/help/08/07/17379.html

Hope this helps,
Roland


Michael Gormley wrote:
> trying to install the pbatR package, I was greeted with the error
> 
> Error: package 'tcltk' does not have a name space
> Execution halted
> 
> Directly installing the package tcltk2 returned the following error:
> 
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>         Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> 
> I have seen from previous posts that tcl/tk must be present when R is
> installed.
> I tried reinstalling R from source using
> 
> ./configure
> make
> 
> and although the installation went fine I received the same errors.
> 
> Typing rpm -qa|grep tcl returns:
> tclx-8.3.5-4
> tcl-8.4.7-2
> tcl-8.4.7-2
> 
> Typing rpm -qa|grep tk returns:
> gtkspell-2.0.7-2
> atk-1.8.0-2
> gtk+-1.2.10-33
> gtk2-2.4.13-22
> authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.3
> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
> tk-8.4.7-2
> gtksourceview-1.1.0-4
> gtk-engines-0.12-6.el4
> tk-8.4.7-2
> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
> gtkglarea-1.2.2-16
> gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7.el4
> gtkhtml3-3.3.2-6.EL
> usermode-gtk-1.74-1
> atk-1.8.0-2
> gtk2-2.4.13-22
> pygtk2-libglade-2.4.0-1
> gtk+-1.2.10-33
> gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
> pygtk2-2.4.0-1
> 
> So it seems that tcl and tk are present on the system.  I saw a post
> suggesting that I may need some development packages?  What is a good place
> to find these packages?
> 
> I am running R version 2.5.1 on a Linux machine running Redhat Enterprise 3.
> 
> 
> Let me know if you need any more info on the operating system and if there
> are any ideas on how to resolve these issues.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Gormley
> 
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