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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:55:15
Message-Id: 200804302354.57551.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk by "John P. Burkett"
1 On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John P. Burkett wrote:
2 > On a x86 machine operating under Gentoo Linux, I'm having persistent
3 > difficulty in emerging R and tcltk in a manner that allows the former
4 > to find the latter. On this machine, in R version 2.6.1, the command
5 > library(tcltk) elicits the following response:
6 > Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
7 > Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
8 > Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk'
9 >
10 > After first encountering this problem, I took the following steps:
11 [snip]
12 > 4. Set a tcltk USE flag for R by appending the line dev-lang/R tcltk
13 > to my /etc/portage/package.use file.
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15 eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact "tk"
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20 Alan McKinnon
21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging R and tcltk "John P. Burkett" <burkett@×××.edu>