R help - May 2003 - "Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system, " RH 9, R 1.7.0-1

In trying to run John Fox's new Rcmdr package on Redhat Linux 9,
I got this error message.  The problem is in loading the tclck
library.  library(tcltk) produces the same error.  It has been
discussed before, e.g.,
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/11898.html but
with respect to earlier versions of Linux and R.
I tried updating to the latest RPMs of tcl and tk (8.3.5-89), but
that didn't help.  Otherwise I just have the standard RH9
installation.  Has anyone gotten tcltk to work on RH9?

Jon

How did you install R?  `R-1.7.0-1' suggests a binary RPM, but we
shouldn't have to guess.

Tcl/Tk has to be present when R was configured.  My guess is that was not 
so when your R was configured (I think RH8.0 and 9 by default don't have 
Tcl/Tk, and never have the current 8.4.1).  In that case you need to build 
R yourself: always a good idea.

It isn't clear to the rest of us what options the builders of binary RPMs 
include, and it would be helpful if the summary given at the end of 
configure was available on CRAN.

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> In trying to run John Fox's new Rcmdr package on Redhat Linux 9,
> I got this error message.  The problem is in loading the tclck
> library.  library(tcltk) produces the same error.  It has been
> discussed before, e.g.,
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/11898.html but
> with respect to earlier versions of Linux and R.
> I tried updating to the latest RPMs of tcl and tk (8.3.5-89), but
> that didn't help.  Otherwise I just have the standard RH9
> installation.  Has anyone gotten tcltk to work on RH9?
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> In trying to run John Fox's new Rcmdr package on Redhat Linux 9,
> I got this error message.  The problem is in loading the tclck
> library.  library(tcltk) produces the same error.  It has been
> discussed before, e.g.,
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/11898.html but
> with respect to earlier versions of Linux and R.
> I tried updating to the latest RPMs of tcl and tk (8.3.5-89), but
> that didn't help.  Otherwise I just have the standard RH9
> installation.  Has anyone gotten tcltk to work on RH9?
Yes.
> 
> Jon
> 
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Hello,

I know that in general, it is better to call callNextMethod without
arguments,
and so the call is done with the current arguments, but I want explicitly
change the value of
a given argument, how can I do ?

See the code. Why is doesn't work ?

Thanks for your help

Laurent Buffat

///////////////////////

setClass("A", representation(a = "numeric"))

setMethod("initialize", "A", function(.Object, a=1, ...)

		   cat("initialize in A\n")
               .Object at a <- a
                return(.Object)
              })

setClass("B", representation(b =
"numeric"),contains=c("A"))

setMethod("initialize", "B", function(.Object, a=1,  b=2,
...)

	    {
	      a.init <- b*b # or something more complexe ...
	      .Object <- callNextMethod(.Object,a=a.init, ...)
	      .Object at b <- b
              return(.Object)
            })



x <-new("B")

/////////////////// error with new("B").
# The evaluation of "a=a.init" is done in the environment of
initialize,A,
and a.init doesn't exist
# in this environment ...

initialize in A
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : Object "a.init" not found

Dear Jonathan,

To clarify, I have verified that the Rcmdr package works under Linux 7.0 
(after some updating). I'm an infrequent user of Linux, so have not 
upgraded my operating system.

I hope that someone else will have a solution, since it's my goal to have 
Rcmdr work as broadly as possible.

Thanks for the report,
  John

At 11:55 AM 5/26/2003 -0400, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>In trying to run John Fox's new Rcmdr package on Redhat Linux 9,
>I got this error message.  The problem is in loading the tclck
>library.  library(tcltk) produces the same error.  It has been
>discussed before, e.g.,
>http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/11898.html but
>with respect to earlier versions of Linux and R.
>I tried updating to the latest RPMs of tcl and tk (8.3.5-89), but
>that didn't help.  Otherwise I just have the standard RH9
>installation.  Has anyone gotten tcltk to work on RH9?
>
>Jon
>
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