My end goal is to be able to use the geoR and sp packages in R on an AWS EC2 Linux instance. The first hurdle is getting an older version of R since 3.3 doesn't support TCL/TK (at least that I've found).
After unpacking R-3.2.5.tar.gz and following the instructions in the INSTALL file (along with these configure options), a search in the config.log shows the following for TCL and TK:
configure:32908: checking for tclConfig.sh
configure:32950: checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories
configure:33143: checking for tcl.h
conftest.c:228:17: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory
#include <tcl.h>
config.status:1893: creating src/library/tcltk/DESCRIPTION
config.status:1893: creating src/library/tcltk/Makefile
config.status:1893: creating src/library/tcltk/src/Makefile
ac_cv_env_TCLTK_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_TCLTK_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_TCLTK_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_TCLTK_LIBS_value=
r_cv_header_tcl_h=no
TCLTK_CPPFLAGS=''
TCLTK_LIBS=''
TCL_CONFIG=''
use_tcltk='no'
R installs successfully, but running capabilities("tcltk") confirms that something went wrong, as it returns FALSE.
Following the hints here, I searched for tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, and realized I hadn't installed the appropriate dependencies, namely tcl-devel, and tk-devel.
Running yum list available shows a package for tcl-devel.x86_64 but nothing for tk. I downloaded source files for TCL and TK from here, but couldn't find source files for any devel packages.
So now I'm at a loss on how to proceed. Has anyone been through this process that can shed some light on it?
UPDATE
After reading the comment below, I'm afraid I didn't do my due diligence in researching TCL/TK and R 3.3.
My very early efforts to troubleshoot the whole problem consisted of the following workflow- First, without even considering an older version of R, I ran install.packages("geoR") in 3.3.2. This resulted in installation of package 'geoR' had non-zero exit status, along with:
Error: package 'tcltk' does not have a namespace
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'geoR'
So, naturally, I ran install.packages("tcltk") which resulted in package 'tcltk' is not available (for R version 3.3.2)
As I mentioned before, this was very early on. I took the message literally and didn't think to look further into TCL/TK for 3.3, but instead started looking to get an earlier version of R, since I had been successfully running geoR and sp on another system that had R 3.2.5.
