[OpenIndiana-discuss] R building problems due to Tcl/TK on openindiana

[Lou Picciano]

Good to know, Albert, 


I've put a few feelers out about 'Best Practices' in this Brave New World in the last couple of weeks... Trying to be not only a good citizen, but a contributor, as well. 


Yours is a good, concrete pointer. Thanks! Lou Picciano 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Lee" <trisk at opensolaris.org> 
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:35:31 PM 
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] R building problems due to Tcl/TK on openindiana 

Daniel and Lou, 

If you're happy with the sunfreeware build of R, that's fine. You can 
continue to use both sunfreeware and Blastwave on OpenIndiana, but I 
should point out they're primarily targeted toward Solaris 10 and 
earlier where proper integration with the system software was not 
possible. 

pkg install pkg:/runtime/tk-8 will the native packages for Tcl and Tk. 
A build recipe for R is in spec-files-extra as "SFER" - see 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pkgbuild/index.php?title=Pkgbuild_on_OpenSolaris 
if you're not familiar with SFE. 

-Albert 

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote: 
> Excellent, I will try the sunfreeware version instead and let you know what 
> happens. I am installing on OI 147 on a V40z with 4x2.5 dual core opterons 
> and 32gb of ram. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net>wrote: 
> 
>> Daniel, 
>> 
>> 
>> Haven't yet built it on openIndiana; we are R users ourselves, also on 
>> Solaris 10 (SPARC). 
>> 
>> 
>> Rather than Blastwave, we'd used SunFreeware's R package - in fact, asked 
>> Steve to build with The R_HOME option, so as to support the shared lib model 
>> option in R. Don't know if blastwave builds support this... 
>> 
>> 
>> I'll be with you on this in a couple of days - we have a few pressing 
>> priorities first. 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards, Lou Picciano 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Daniel Kjar" <dkjar at elmira.edu> 
>> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org 
>> > 
>> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:16:22 AM 
>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] R building problems due to Tcl/TK on 
>> openindiana 
>> 
>> Hello all, 
>> 
>> This probably has a very simple answer (I hope). I have been fighting 
>> with this for days. I installed the R package from blastwave, works 
>> fine. Trying to get Rcommander installed. The required package aplpack 
>> keeps kicking out due to 
>> 
>> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : 
>> Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system 
>> Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded 
>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'aplpack' 
>> 
>> When I look for tcl i get this 
>> 
>> Current packages: CSWcommon-1.8.0,REV=2010.05.01 
>> CSWisaexec-11.11,REV=2009.12.27 CSWtcl-8.5.7,REV=2009.09.23 
>> 
>> Is there a development package I need? Is there simply something that 
>> needs to be added to my path? 
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated. I did not have this problem on my old 
>> Solaris 10... 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Daniel Kjar 
>> Assistant Professor of Biology 
>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 
>> Elmira College 
>> 1 Park Place 
>> Elmira, NY 14901 
>> 607-735-1826 
>> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar 
>> 
>> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies" 
>> -E. O. Wilson 
>> 
>> 
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