On 30 November 2009 at 15:12, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
| stephen sefick wrote:
| > Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
| > Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
| > Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
| >
| > Ubuntu 9.10
| > I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries
| > installed. I need both of these because some of my GIS software
| > requires the 8.4 libraries. Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ...
| >
| > All help is greatly appreciated!
a) This is a very much a FAQ. Learn to use the archives, and Google.
b) You need the -dev packages for compiling. You probably only have the
run-time packages for tcl and tk 8.4 and 8.5. Install the matching -dev
packages.
c) You seem to have recompiled R yourself. Why? CRAN has current versions
of R 2.10.0 for Ubuntu at cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu -- why not
use it?
d) This is a question for r-sig-debian.
| > regards,
| >
|
| Is this "stock R" or one you compiled yourself? What does capabilities()
| say about tcltk?
|
| I don't use Ubuntu, and it is a bit hard to know what kinds of messes
| distibution maintainers might cook up, but if capabilities() claims that
e) Few for Debian and Ubuntu. And the ones we learn about, we fix. The
shipped version of R has:
R> capabilities()
jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE
sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
cairo
TRUE
R>
To use Peter's colourful language: This appears to be a something the
user 'cooked up' himself.
Dirk
| tcltk should work, then I might take a look at
|
| ldd /usr/lib64/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
|
| or whatever the counterpart is on your system. And also check that
| you're not accidentally setting things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the wrong
| thing in your shell environment.
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