R help - Feb 2003 - Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system.

I am trying to get R to run on a Red Hat 8 system, I am running R version
1.6.2 with Tcl/Tk version 8.3.5 installed. When I try to test R from the
data_sets directory I get the error message;
Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
	Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
Error in fileBrowser(textToShow = "Choose one CDF file" , nSelect = 1,
:
	tcl/tk library not available
Execution halted.

Any help would be appreciated.

Doug Forbeck

"Forbeck, Doug (NIH/NCI)" <forbeckd at mail.nih.gov> writes:
> I am trying to get R to run on a Red Hat 8 system, I am running R version
> 1.6.2 with Tcl/Tk version 8.3.5 installed. When I try to test R from the
> data_sets directory I get the error message;
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> 	Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> Error in fileBrowser(textToShow = "Choose one CDF file" , nSelect
= 1, :
> 	tcl/tk library not available
> Execution halted.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
8.3.5 is not stock RH8 is it? I have 8.3.3. 

My best guess is that something went wrong during the build of R. Make
sure that the configure process figures out where to find the Tcl/Tck
header files and libraries.

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You probably do not have the tcl/tk libraries on which R tcltk package relies.
tcl/tk can be downloaded from the web.

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>I am trying to get R to run on a Red Hat 8 system, I am running R version
>1.6.2 with Tcl/Tk version 8.3.5 installed. When I try to test R from the
>data_sets directory I get the error message;
>Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>	Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>Error in fileBrowser(textToShow = "Choose one CDF file" , nSelect
= 1, :
>	tcl/tk library not available
>Execution halted.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Doug Forbeck
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Jianhua Zhang
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Boston, MA 02115-6084

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>"Forbeck, Doug (NIH/NCI)" <forbeckd at mail.nih.gov> writes:
>
>> I am trying to get R to run on a Red Hat 8 system, I am running R 
>> version 1.6.2 with Tcl/Tk version 8.3.5 installed. When I 
>try to test 
>> R from the data_sets directory I get the error message; Error in 
>> firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>> 	Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
>> Error in fileBrowser(textToShow = "Choose one CDF file" , 
>nSelect = 1, :
>> 	tcl/tk library not available
>> Execution halted.
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>8.3.5 is not stock RH8 is it? I have 8.3.3. 
>
>My best guess is that something went wrong during the build of 
>R. Make sure that the configure process figures out where to 
>find the Tcl/Tck header files and libraries.

Tcl/tk version 8.3.3-74 is indeed the current "official" version from
RH for 8.0 and is what I have as well.  No updates to that version are
yet available via RHN, though updates are of course available from
ActiveState to 8.3.5 and 8.4.1.

Tcl/tk works fine on my system using R 1.6.2 installed from the RPM
provided by Martyn Plummer on CRAN
(http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/8.x/i386/R-1.6.2-1.i386.rp
m) and tcl/tk installed from the RH DVD.

I agree with Peter, sounds like a library location problem/conflict.
Which came first?  The build/install of R or the install/upgrade of
tcl/tk?  If you installed/upgraded the tcl package second, the path
for the tcl libraries may not be the same as what was present when you
first built/installed R, presuming that tcl was installed at that
point.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz