There is a binary installation available at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
so do you actually need to be building from the sources? If you do, your
immediate problem is installing Tk on MacOS X, and that's not something
relevant to R-help. However, Tk on Unix needs X11, whose installation you
omitted.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Nancy Hornewer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install R for Mac OS X. I printed out the Mac OS X FAQ
> (version 1.9-1 2004-03-22) and have been following those instructions
> step-by-step. I'm a _complete_ novice when it comes to non-mac type
> software installations and am not very unix literate, but I'm hoping I
> can get this to work. I'm running a dual 1.8 GHz mac with the latest
> version of panther.
>
> Here's my progress to date:
> (1) Installed the C/C++ compiler from the Apple Developer Connection
> (v. 1.5) - no problems
> (2) Installed the Fortran compiler g77 for gcc 3.3 (v. 3.4) - no
> problems
> (3) Installed the libreadline library (v. 4.3) [note faq said
> optional, but I saw that it was recommended in one of the r-help
> archives] - no problems
> (4) Didn't install X11 SDK package because it was optional and I
don't
> think I need that (just want to run this on my machine)
> (5) Installed tcl8.4.7 - no problems
> (6) Tried installing tk8.4.7 but received many many error messages when
> I typed "make". Here is the last portion of those messages:
>
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c: In function `Tk_Get3DBorderFromObj':
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1262: error: `borderPtr' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1264: error: invalid operands to binary *
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1264: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1277: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1280: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1280: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1281: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1301: error: request for member `borderTable'
> in something not a structure or union
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1301: error: request for member `borderTable'
> in something not a structure or union
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1305: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1307: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1307: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1308: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c: In function `TkDebugBorder':
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1388: error: `borderPtr' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1391: error: invalid operands to binary *
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1391: error: parse error before ')' token
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1394: error: request for member `borderTable'
> in something not a structure or union
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1394: error: request for member `borderTable'
> in something not a structure or union
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1396: error: parse error before ')' token
> /usr/include/ctype.h: At top level:
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1134: error: storage size of `shiftTable'
isn't
> known
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:31: warning: `BorderInit' declared `static'
but
> never defined
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:36: warning: `Intersect' declared `static'
but
> never defined
> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:39: warning: `ShiftLine' declared `static'
but
> never defined
> {standard input}:1940:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> {standard input}:1943:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> {standard input}:1979:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> {standard input}:1982:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> {standard input}:1985:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> {standard input}:1988:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
> make: *** [tk3d.o] Error 1
> cm-24-121-11-63:/tk8.4.7/unix nancy$
>
> I'm not sure why this didn't work and tried the "make"
command twice (I
> hope I didn't mess anything up by running that command twice). I can
> email the entire list of errors if necessary, but it is really long.
>
> After the above failed, I did install the next item on the faq list:
> TeX and that seemed to work fine.
>
> I haven't yet tried installing the R sources yet because I was afraid
> that it might have to be installed after tk.
>
> Any assistance that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Nancy
>
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