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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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>> |
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>> After first encountering this problem, I took the following steps: |
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> [snip] |
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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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> |
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> eix reveals that the required USE flag is in fact "tk" |
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Thanks, Alan! Changing the USE flag from tcltk to tk, as you suggested, |
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was the key to getting R to find tcltk. After making that change, doing |
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"emerge -C R" and "emerge R" was enough to correct 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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