gWidgetstcltk needs tcl/tk 8.5 The gWidgetstcltk package now needs tcl/tk version 8.5 or newer installed. This change was made when R 2.7.0 shipped this version for windows. The 8.5 version allows for many more widgets, that prior to this were hacked or ignored in gWidgetstcltk. For windows this is not issue, for linux users not a big issue, for Mac OS X users, one needs to (I think) compile the tcl/tk libraries from source (www.tcl.tk). This has been confirmed to work for gWidgetstcltk under OS X 10.5, but YMMV.