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Drew Steen
Drew Steen

Reputation: 16607

Infinite loop caused by require(gWidgetstcltk)

When I require(gWidgetstcktk), I get an infinite loop, with a seemingly endless number of error messages that look like this:

error reading package index file /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/tcltk2/tklibs/ttktheme_clearlooks/pkgIndex.tcl: can't find package tile
error reading package index file /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/tcltk2/tklibs/ttktheme_clearlooks/pkgIndex.tcl: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)

(On each iteration the path is different. The end of these messages seem to be the important parts: can't find package tile and too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)

I installed the packages as usual using install.package() and the files referred to seem to be present. gWidgets seems to load just fine. I'm running R 2.14.1 via RStudio 0.96.231 on OSX 10.7.4. What is going wrong here?

Update: I now see that the problem is coming from the tcltk2 package.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 934

Answers (1)

MikeZ
MikeZ

Reputation: 355

That shouldn't happen. First off, I'd say try uninstalling the package and then re-installing it. There might have been an error during the process. Another thing you should do is select "Install All Dependencies" when you do this (or install.packages(______, dependencies = TRUE)). Have you installed all of the package's relevant dependencies? Perhaps this library requires a different library which you don't have.

Upvotes: 1

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