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On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote: |
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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 |
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> to 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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> 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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eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact "tk" |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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