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On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent |
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difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former to |
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find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command |
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library(tcltk) elicits the following response: |
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Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : |
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Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system |
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Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' |
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After first encountering this problem, I took the following steps: |
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1. Made sure that installed programs include dev-lang/tcl, |
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dev-tcltk/mysqltcl, dev-tcltk/otcl, dev-tcltk/tcl-debug, |
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dev-tcltk/tcldom, dev-tcltk/tcllib, dev-tcltk/tclperl, |
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dev-tcltk/tclpython, dev-tcltk/tclreadline, dev-tcltk/tclxml, |
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and dev-tcltk/tclxml-expat. |
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2. Verified that tcltk was installed by writing a little file hello.tcl, |
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running the command "tclsh hello.tcl", and observing that the output was |
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correct. |
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3. Removed R by doing "emerge -C R". |
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4. Set a tcltk USE flag for R by appending the line dev-lang/R tcltk |
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to my /etc/portage/package.use file. |
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5. Reinstalled R by doing "emerge R" |
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Then I started R and again tried "library(tcltk)". The response was |
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exactly the same before. |
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I would be most grateful for suggestions about diagnosing and solving |
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the problem. |
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Best regards, |
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John |
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John P. Burkett |
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Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
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and Department of Economics |
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University of Rhode Island |
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Kingston, RI 02881-0808 |
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USA |
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phone (401) 874-9195 |
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