[ESS] ESS, install.packages() in R, and Windows

Henric Nilsson henric.nilsson at statisticon.se
Mon Dec 19 15:58:56 CET 2005


On Må, 2005-12-19, 14:54, Stephen Eglen skrev:
>
>  > No. It works without loading tcltk, or any other work-around for that
>  > matter, in both the terminal (rterm.exe) and GUI (rgui.exe) versions of
> R
>  > for Windows.
>
> This is odd. Is this a problem new to 5.2.11 or to older ESS too?

I've no idea -- I'll test a few and report back later.

> A workaround for now could be to change inferior-S-language-start
> so that it also sends the command to load the tcltk package, but I'm
> not sure about that.

That seems a bit intrusive. Perhaps opening a graphics device is better,
since it'll also solve it (like I indicated before with `plot(0, 0)').


Henric




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