On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:09:25AM +0200, Davide Massidda wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have installed R on Linux/Ubuntu 8.04. When I try to load the tcltk
> package, I get the response:
>
> > library(tcltk)
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> Error in library(tcltk) : . First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
>
> In order to solve this problem, I try to:
> 1. To download the tcl and the tk packages (version: 8.5) from
> http://www.tcl.tk and to install them (the -dev packages also), but the
> error hold over.
> 2. To install the previous releases (version: 8.4) for these packages. The
> error hold over.
> 3. To set the environment variables 'TCL_LIBRARY' and 'TK_LIBRARY', in this
> mode:
> TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.5 * (or 8.4)*
> TK_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/tk8.5 *(or 8.4)*
> but the error hold over.
> 4.Therefore, after this modifications, i uninstalled R and I installed again
> it. I try to do this both without setting environment variables and setting
> it. The error hold over.
> I look for a solution.
Read the README at cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ and install
the pre-built version. It has working tcl/tk support; and all other
features should be available too.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "capabilities()" | R --slave
jpeg png tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets libxml
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE
fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo
TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l r-base-core|tail -1
ii r-base-core 2.7.1-1hardy0 GNU R core of statistical computing language
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Dirk
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