R help - Nov 2009 - Ubuntu tcl/tk problems

Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
  Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded

Ubuntu 9.10
I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries
installed.  I need both of these because some of my GIS software
requires the 8.4 libraries.  Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ...

All help is greatly appreciated!
regards,

-- 
Stephen Sefick

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis

I have installed
apt-get build-dep r-base - also

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> ?Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
>
> Ubuntu 9.10
> I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries
> installed. ?I need both of these because some of my GIS software
> requires the 8.4 libraries. ?Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ...
>
> All help is greatly appreciated!
> regards,
>
> --
> Stephen Sefick
>
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> make us feel like gods. ?We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-K. Mullis
>


-- 
Stephen Sefick

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis

stephen sefick wrote:
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>   Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
> 
> Ubuntu 9.10
> I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries
> installed.  I need both of these because some of my GIS software
> requires the 8.4 libraries.  Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ...
> 
> All help is greatly appreciated!
> regards,
> 
Is this "stock R" or one you compiled yourself? What does
capabilities()
say about tcltk?

I don't use Ubuntu, and it is a bit hard to know what kinds of messes
distibution maintainers might cook up, but if capabilities() claims that
tcltk should work, then I might take a look at

ldd /usr/lib64/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so

or whatever the counterpart is on your system. And also check that
you're not accidentally setting things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the wrong
thing in your shell environment.
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