unable to load tcltk on installation

[hudon]

When I run install.packages("shiny"), I get this error:

Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details:
    call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
    error: unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so':
    libtk8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I tried install.packages("tcltk2"), which gives me the same error. Is there a requirement for this package I am missing?

Arch Linux x86_64
R 2.15.2

[hudon]

My bad, this is not your problem at all. The r package for arch has tk as an optional dependency. I just needed to install that.

[con5tella]

I encountered the same problem, have you already solved? Thx!

[benjaminengel]

On archlinux you just have to install the tk package with sudo pacman -S tk.

[con5tella]

@benjaminengel Thanks for your reply.

I have found the solution via the internet and solved it last weekend. I use another distro Manjaro based on Arch.

At the beginning, the reason that the package tcltk, pbatR needed, can't run on R is I have not install gcc-fortran on the system.