Problem Installing rJava on MS Win 7 Platform
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:41 AM To: Stephen P Molnar Cc: r-help at r-project.org; 'Uwe Ligges' Subject: Re: [R] Problem Installing rJava on MS Win 7 Platform He said "Java", not "rJava.
On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Yes, you are quite correct, but:
install.packages('rJava')
Warning in install.packages("rJava") :
argument 'lib' is missing: using
'C:\Users\Stephen\Documents/R/win64-library/2.11'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11
trying URL
'http://cran.case.edu/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11/rJava_0.8-5.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 658913 bytes (643 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 643 Kb
package 'rJava' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded packages are in
C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpcy0hAb
\downloaded_packages
install.packages('C;\Users\Stephen\AppData\Local/Temp/Rtmpcy0hAb
\downloaded_
There is a semi-colon in that path above that looks wrong. You might first want to check that all your PATH entries are recorded properly.
David. > $ > Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string starting "C; > \U" >> > > So, obviously, at this point I am attempting something that R does > not like. In addition, for Windows you need to either double your back-slashes in the file path, or use forward-slashes instead. Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA