[R] Odd crash with tcl/tk

[Gabor Grothendieck]

That should not be necessary if you used

   options(gsubfn.engine = "R")

since it should not be using tcltk in the first place.

Perhaps you are using an old version of gsubfn -- the latest on CRAN is 0.5-3.


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Lars Dalby <lars.dalby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> Spot on! You where absolutely right. After installing the tcltk bits
> it worked just fine.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Lars
>
> On Aug 17, 4:36 pm, peter dalgaard <pda... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to chime in late (for some reason, I was not at the Mac when this came in originally).
>>
>> I can't reproduce the situation. One guess is that you haven't installed the tcltk bits, as indicated on thehttp://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx/page.
>>
>> -pd
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Lars Dalby wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi
>>
>> > @ Andrew: Did you get this problem solved?
>> > I am having similar problems and have tried to work around it using
>> > options(gsubfn.engine = "R") as suggested by Gabor.
>> > However, this don't solve on my machine. R just freezes up trying to
>> > execute read.csv.sql()
>>
>> > On OSX 10.6.4, R 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 64bit
>>
>> > Any help is much appreciated!
>>
>> > Lars
>>
>> > On Jul 28, 9:41 pm, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi... at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:06 AM, AndrewPage <savejar... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>> Hi,
>>
>> >>> Recently, I've been trying to use packages in R that require loading the
>> >>> Tcl/Tk interface.  However, I get a strange result and a crash that I
>> >>> haven't been able to find discussion about on these boards (or any others).
>>
>> >>> When I enter library(tcltk), it reads "Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... ", but
>> >>> then never says "done" or displays some sort of error message.  Looks like
>> >>> this:
>>
>> >>>> x11()
>> >>>> library(tcltk)
>> >>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ...
>>
>> >>> Now you can type additional commands in, at your peril!  For example, if I
>> >>> type in the text "library", nothing happens, but "library(" causes R to
>> >>> freeze up irreparably, with "executing:
>> >>> try(gsub('\\s+','',paste(capture.output(print(args(library)))),collapse=")) ,silent=TRUE)"
>> >>> displayed at the bottom.  When this happens, there's nothing you can do but
>> >>> restart R because it's completely frozen.
>>
>> >>> I'm running R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-07-27 r52627)
>>
>> >>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5603) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>
>> >>> with XQuartz 2.3.5 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple53)
>>
>> >>> on a mac (snow leopard)
>>
>> >>> Thanks for any help/suggestions in advance,
>>
>> >>> Andrew
>>
>> >> One thought is that if this is to use gsubfn or sqldf (which uses
>> >> gsubfn) then you can get them to not use thetcltkcode but use R code
>> >> instead by either of these two means:
>>
>> >> 1. issue the command:
>> >> options(gsubfn.engine = "R")
>> >> before issuing your library(sqldf) or library(gsubfn) command.  You
>> >> can put the options command in your .Rprofile if you like and then you
>> >> will have it on every session.
>>
>> >> or
>>
>> >> 2. use a build of R that has notcltkin it.  In that case it will
>> >> recognize it and switch to using R.  I believe one such build exists
>> >> for the Mac.
>>
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