From ml_a at waddell.ch  Fri Sep  3 04:24:03 2010
From: ml_a at waddell.ch (Adrian Waddell)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:24:03 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Installing a Tcl/Tk Extension on OSX
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Thanks, that works actually out of the box from a fresh OSX 10.6
installation. So no ActiveTcl is needed. This is great!

Greetings,

Adrian


On 09/02/2010 05:01 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> This is relatively simple if you can find the packages you need in the
> default Tcl/Tk install on the Mac (/System/Library/Tcl) and if these
> packages are compatibles with the X11 Tcl/Tk used by R. This should be
> fine for packages containing no compiled code. For the others, you
> should check first (but for instance, Img and tsl work for me - Mac OS
> X 10.6.4). You can then use these package in R own Tcl environment
> like this:
>
> > library(tcltk)
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> > addTclPath("/System/Library/Tcl")
> > tclRequire("Img")
> <Tcl> 1.4
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe
>
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> On 01/09/10 18:16, Adrian Waddell wrote:
>> Dear R-Community,
>>
>> I need the Img tk extension for my R package. It all works on my Ubuntu
>> machine (libtk-img). However I experience a great deal of trouble when I
>> try to install the package on OSX 10.5 or 10.6 (in fact I'm not able to
>> do it).
>>
>> As I understand it, the ActiveTcl with it's teacup package manager do
>> not have an effect on the the x11 tcl installation which R accesses.
>> MacPorts however has the libtk-img package not listed and compiling it
>> from the source (with configure, make all, make install) does not do the
>> job either for me (adding the compiled package folder to auto_path).
>>
>> Now, as I would like some R users to once use my R package (once it's on
>> CRAN), installing the Img tk extension should to be a fairly easy task
>> on OSX .
>>
>> Can anybody tell me how I best tackle this problem in a way, such that
>> OSX R users (and myself) in future can easily install the Img tk
>> package?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Adrian Waddell
>>
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[Rd] Installing a Tcl/Tk Extension on OSX
Adrian Waddell