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

[Daniel Kjar]

  Thanks Albert, I will look into this and see if I can get it built and 
running.  A functional R pkg for openindiana would be a great sell to 
the academics out there.  I will see if I can't put something together.





On 10/14/10 07:35 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
> 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...
>>>
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Dr. Daniel Kjar
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Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Elmira College
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"...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
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