From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Tue Mar 19 16:07:31 2013
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:07:31 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Windows R-3.0.0 and Tcl/tkrplot issue
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This has been fixed already, as far as I know,
Uwe


On 18.03.2013 12:10, Wayne.W.Jones at shell.com wrote:
> Greetings R Developers,
>
> I've been testing the alpha release of R-3.0.0 and I noticed that the plotting functionality in package tkrplot was not working correctly.
> Further diagnosis found the issue to be related to the command '.Tcl("image create Rplot plotname")' from package "tkrplot".
>
> The following example is  taken from here:  http://tkrplot.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.0.14/tcltkimg_8c_source.html
>
>> library(tkrplot)
>> library(tcltk)
>> my.tkdev <- function() win.metafile(width=4,height=4)
>> my.tkdev()
>> plot(1:20)
>> .Tcl("image create Rplot fred")
> Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTcl, ...), class = "tclObj") :
>    [tcl] can't get device image.
>
> This example works fine in R-2.15.3.  I've emailed the package maintainer Luke Tierney but unfortunately he doesn't have the ability to build and test packages on windows.
> Can anyone elucidate what tcltk changes have been made in moving to R-3.0.0?
>
> Details of installation are as follows:
>
>> version
> platform       i386-w64-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status         alpha
> major          3
> minor          0.0
> year           2013
> month          03
> day            16
> svn rev        62282
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.0.0 alpha (2013-03-16 r62282)
> nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
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[Rd] Windows R-3.0.0 and Tcl/tkrplot issue
Uwe Ligges