Bug 19824 - Installation of packages on R.3.3.1 with Mageia 5, problem with tcl.8.6 ?
Summary: Installation of packages on R.3.3.1 with Mageia 5, problem with tcl.8.6 ?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
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Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2016-11-20 10:24 CET by Marianne ANNONIER
Modified: 2016-11-21 14:41 CET (History)
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Description Marianne ANNONIER 2016-11-20 10:24:08 CET
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')
Comment 1 David Walser 2016-11-21 14:41:18 CET
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 => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID


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