Thanks very much, John. Installing that tcltk package is all that is required. It would be nice to make this a part of the download of 2.10.1 as it is wasting a significant amount of time for R Commander users on the Mac.
Dwight -----Original Message----- From: John Fox [mailto:j...@mcmaster.ca] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:01 PM To: Krehbiel, Dwight Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 or 10.6 Dear Dwight, I've never observed this problem myself, and many people apparently run the tcltk and Rcmdr packages with R 2.10.1 under Mac OS 10.6 without difficulty. You can confirm that the problem is with tcltk by trying to load that package independently of the Rcmdr: i.e., library(tcltk). Similar questions have been raised several times, however, on both r-help and the r-mac-sig lists, including in the last week. The problem is probably with your installation of Tcl/Tk. See, e.g., Rob Goedman's recent post to r-help, and the following message from r-sig-mac, which tells you what to do.: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-January/007008.html>. I hope this helps (please tell me and the list whether it does). John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Krehbiel, Dwight > Sent: March-14-10 12:22 PM > To: 'r-help@r-project.org' > Subject: [R] Error loading R Commander with version 2.10.1 on MacOS 10.5 or > 10.6 > > Dear R Commander experts, > > I have now had multiple failures in loading R Commander with R version 2.10.1 > (most recent one on the CRAN site) on a Mac running OS 10.5 or 10.6. The > installation of R Commander seems to proceed normally, but when I try to > start up R Commander, it never loads. It appears that it is loading the > tcl/tk package that is failing even though I have started up X11 in advance. > Does anyone have any experience with this? I know that one of my students > encountered the same problem, and I have experienced it on more than one > machine - both PowerPC and Intel-based. We are routinely running early > versions of R and R Commander. > > I would appreciate any clues. > > Best regards, > > Dwight Krehbiel > Bethel College > North Newton, KS 6717 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
