R help - Feb 2006 - TclTk library loading (whole version) Linux

Hello;

Well, I'm afraid this is the second related problem I report in two days
(I'm sorry for this)

I've programmed a tcltk interface for a model and it includes a
comboBox. The comboBox widget comes with the "BWidgets" library of
Tcl/Tk.

 It works all perfectly with the windows R GUI (with the help of Prof.
B. Ripley), following the advices in ?Startup, but I would like that it
also could work under Linux. I've got a complete TclTk8.4 installed and
also BWidgets, and I could swear that the complete Tcl libraries could
be loaded at least once, because I saw a message like "Tcl 1.7" or
similar under R.

Now I don't receive the message anymore and it cannot find BWidgets
under R. So I'm not even sure that I'm loading the whole tclTk Library
anymore(instead of the subset that comes along with R)

I've got libtcl8.4.so and libtk8.4.so in /usr/lib
My .Renviron file contains:

MY_TCLTK=yes
TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/tcl8.4

an in my R session:
------------------------------
> Sys.getenv("MY_TCLTK")
MY_TCLTK
   "yes"
> Sys.getenv("TCL_LIBRARY")
      TCL_LIBRARY
"/usr/lib/tcl8.4"
> tclRequire("BWidgets")
[1] FALSE
Warning message:
Tcl package 'BWidgets' not found in: tclRequire("BWidgets")
---------------------------------

Please, some how uses BWidgets could tell if I'm doing something wrong
in these steps? I've just installed ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics), could
this be a source of problem?

Thanks to all, and best regards

Javier
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javier garcia-pintado <jgarcia at ija.csic.es> writes:
> Hello;
> 
> Well, I'm afraid this is the second related problem I report in two
days
> (I'm sorry for this)
> 
> I've programmed a tcltk interface for a model and it includes a
> comboBox. The comboBox widget comes with the "BWidgets" library
of Tcl/Tk.
> 
>  It works all perfectly with the windows R GUI (with the help of Prof.
> B. Ripley), following the advices in ?Startup, but I would like that it
> also could work under Linux. I've got a complete TclTk8.4 installed and
> also BWidgets, and I could swear that the complete Tcl libraries could
> be loaded at least once, because I saw a message like "Tcl 1.7"
or
> similar under R.
> 
> Now I don't receive the message anymore and it cannot find BWidgets
> under R. So I'm not even sure that I'm loading the whole tclTk
Library
> anymore(instead of the subset that comes along with R)
> 
> I've got libtcl8.4.so and libtk8.4.so in /usr/lib
> My .Renviron file contains:
> 
> MY_TCLTK=yes
> TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
> 
> an in my R session:
> ------------------------------
> > Sys.getenv("MY_TCLTK")
> MY_TCLTK
>    "yes"
> > Sys.getenv("TCL_LIBRARY")
>       TCL_LIBRARY
> "/usr/lib/tcl8.4"
> > tclRequire("BWidgets")
> [1] FALSE
> Warning message:
> Tcl package 'BWidgets' not found in:
tclRequire("BWidgets")
> ---------------------------------
> 
> Please, some how uses BWidgets could tell if I'm doing something wrong
> in these steps? I've just installed ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics),
could
> this be a source of problem?
> 
> Thanks to all, and best regards
> 
> Javier
Another Javier (pez-de-Lacalle) has been messing with similar issues
for the "uroot" package it seems. There is some stuff in the README
file
that might be useful. He has  tclRequire("BWidget") (no
"s")...

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