If you don’t care about Tcl/Tk, you could also install R without it. Just 
choose “Customize” in the installer and unselect it.

Davor

On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> Simon,
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Unfortunately HB installs by default in /usr/local and requires full control 
>> so you cannot have native libraries and HB in the same place at the same 
>> time. So essentially you have to pick one or the other. There are two 
>> options:
>> 
>> a) install HB in another place. This allows you to keep native libraries in 
>> /usr/local and parallel HB. HB is less tested that way, though, so that's 
>> why HB is shy of recommending it.
>> 
>> b) ignore HB's moaning. It should be ok as long as you don't install tcl/tk 
>> via HB. It may get complicated if dependencies detect tcl/tk so for safety 
>> you could rename the .pc files and the t*Config.sh files if you don't expect 
>> to compile R packages that depend on tcl/tk.
> 
> I am ignoring the moanings of brew doctor.  I generally try and avoid 
> compiling R packages if at all possible, and I never used stuff that uses 
> tcl/tk (that I know of).  My main concern is that I want to install SciPy and 
> Python 3 (assuming this can be done in a way that will not get Mavericks 
> throw a fit) and that might — or not — get some tcl/tk action in.  If not, 
> R.app and HB can live together for all I care.
> 
> Best
> 
> F
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>>> BW
>>> 
>>> F
>>> 
>>> 
>>> PS  I also asked on apple stack, but I haven’t go any reasonable answer 
>>> thus far and I’d rather get going.
>>> 
>>> 
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