R help - Apr 2005 - installing R-2.1.0 from source on Fedora Core 3 with tclt k

On my FC3 for x86_64 (Athlon64 3000+) at home, R-patched from today compiled
just fine, and tcltk works.  The version of tcl, tcl-devel, tk and tk-devel
are all 8.4.7-2.

Cheers,
Andy
> From: Jonathan Baron
> 
> I installed from source on Fedora Core 3 starting with the
> command
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-tcltk
> 
> (The --with-tcltk may not be necessary, but there seems to be
> some correlation between using it and getting it to work.)
> 
> It would not compile with tcltk, even though I had both tcl and
> tk rpms installed.
> 
> Various fooling around let me to get
> 
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/R_Tcl.zip

(even though it is supposedly for Windows), unzip it in the
R-2.0.0/ directory (where the tar file put itself), and also
install rpms for tcl-devel and tk-devel, which I did not have.
When I did both of these things, it worked.  Either one of them
alone (the ..devel rpms or the R_Tcl.zip) did not suffice.
(However, it isn't clear that a single trial experiment is
sufficient to determine what works.)

My own problem is solved for the moment.  But others may benefit
from this report, and it may be that the installation
documentation needs minor tweaking.  (Or it may be that I did
something else wrong, but right now I doubt that.)

Jon
-- 
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Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> On my FC3 for x86_64 (Athlon64 3000+) at home, R-patched from today
compiled
> just fine, and tcltk works.  The version of tcl, tcl-devel, tk and tk-devel
> are all 8.4.7-2.
Indeed.  Since FC3 is the platform used by two (at least) of R-core and 
both have 64-bit machines, it would be surprising if there were a problem 
there.
>> From: Jonathan Baron
>>
>> I installed from source on Fedora Core 3 starting with the
>> command
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-tcltk
>>
>> (The --with-tcltk may not be necessary, but there seems to be
>> some correlation between using it and getting it to work.)
>>
>> It would not compile with tcltk, even though I had both tcl and
>> tk rpms installed.
>>
>> Various fooling around let me to get
>>
> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/R_Tcl.zip
>
> (even though it is supposedly for Windows), unzip it in the
> R-2.0.0/ directory (where the tar file put itself), and also
> install rpms for tcl-devel and tk-devel, which I did not have.
> When I did both of these things, it worked.  Either one of them
> alone (the ..devel rpms or the R_Tcl.zip) did not suffice.
You need the non-devel rpms as well, and that is what I think you are 
picking up from the R_Tcl.zip (which is Tcl pre-compiled for Windows).
> (However, it isn't clear that a single trial experiment is
> sufficient to determine what works.)
>
> My own problem is solved for the moment.  But others may benefit
> from this report, and it may be that the installation
> documentation needs minor tweaking.  (Or it may be that I did
> something else wrong, but right now I doubt that.)
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