R help - Aug 2002 - Using Tcl/Tk on Windows

Hello,

I would like to try Tcl/Tk library on Windows.
I installed ActiveTCL 8.3.4.3 and add the environment variable TCL_LIBRARY 
linking to the directory of installation.

When I load the Tcl/Tk package, I have the following error:

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
         Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
     {d:\TCL}

This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) :
         .First.lib failed
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Effectlively, there is no such file in the directory where I installed 
ActiveTCL 8.3.

I am working on Windows 2000, with R 1.5 and ActiveTCL 8.3.

Is there something I missed?

Eric Lecoutre

(note: I first downloaded ActiveTCL 8.4 beta, which would not work as the 
searched DLL is called tk83.dll and the one with this distribution is tk84.dll)

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Eric Lecoutre wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to try Tcl/Tk library on Windows.
> I installed ActiveTCL 8.3.4.3 and add the environment variable TCL_LIBRARY
> linking to the directory of installation.
> 
> When I load the Tcl/Tk package, I have the following error:
> 
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>          Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>      {d:\TCL}
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) :
>          .First.lib failed
> +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> Effectlively, there is no such file in the directory where I installed
> ActiveTCL 8.3.
> 
> I am working on Windows 2000, with R 1.5 and ActiveTCL 8.3.
> 
> Is there something I missed?
Yes: TCL_LIBRARY means the library path of tcl, as the names suggests. I
guess, in your case, it should be set to d:\tcl\lib\tcl8.3 in which the
mentioned file exists.

Uwe Ligges
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