How to install tcltk in R?

Question

My system is: debian6 + r-2.15.

I have installed tcl-devel and tk-devel with apt-get:

apt-get install tcl8.5-         


        

Answer 1

I think you are doing this wrong.

Read the README at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ to learn how to get the current R version for your Debian version (be it stable or testing). This version already has support for the tcltk package which comes with R, provided R is built the right way. Which is easiest to assure with a proper pre-built version.

You can check that by looking at capabilities():

R> capabilities()["tcltk"]
tcltk 
 TRUE 
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