Description of problem: Hello, I use the R software (R-base) from the console (personally I don't use Rstudio), but I can't install packages since I had a new version of R : 3.3.1 ('Bug in Your Hair') installed. I have the followed message in R when I try the command "install.packages('something')" : Installation of the package in â/home/.../R/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu-library/3.3â (because âlibâ isn't specified) Erreur : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details: call: fun(libname, pkgname) error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: /usr/share/tcl8.6 ./lib/tcl8.6 ./lib/tcl8.6 ./library ./library ./tcl8.6.5/library ./tcl8.6.5/library This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly. Being a beginner on Linux (and I have no long experience of informatics), I shown a computer person that (who have tried to install R.3.3.1 for me because I couldn't make it). He thinks that it's because the version 3.3.1 of R is not available on my version of Mageia (5, 64-bit). Mageia 5 have only the version 3.1.2 of R (R-base-3.1.2-2.mga5.i586.rpm). So he have advise me to signal this problem here, and he have suggested that it should to backport R.3.3.1 on Mageia.5 to resolve it, waiting I update my version of Mageia (when the sixth distribution will be available). What did you think about that ? Thank you if you can help me, and sorry if my sentences are not totally correct, my english language is a little bit unreliable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): R-base 3.3.1(2016-06-21, 'Bug in Your Hair') How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install R-base 3.3.1 2. Open in console and open R (just enter: R ) 3. Try this command (for example, with the package 'car', 'ape' or 'ggplot2') : install.packages('name_of_package')
Mageia 5 has R-base 3.1.2 and tcl/tk 8.5.15. If you're using someone else's binaries, you'll have to work with them, but it does look like it's built against 8.6, so you can try rebuilding it.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID