installXLSXsupport() error
I ran into this some months ago with Rcpp or RcppArmadillo. Switching to source let me install them, but I see that whatever the problem was at the time, has been fixed since because their binaries do now appear in the package installer GUI. I'll check the "check_results" page the next time this happens, thanks for reminding me. Davor
On 2012-07-16, at 9:43 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 16/07/2012 17:17, Davor Cubranic wrote:
You didn't have to go through the command line. In the R GUI's package installer, if you switched package repository to "CRAN (sources)", you would have found XLConnect there too. You don't mention the version of OS X you're running, but for me with Lion and R 2.15.1, I have the same problem. Most binary packages on CRAN will not be found, and so I always choose to install from source.
That's not true for me. Currently 3808 binary packages are available out of 3912 source packages, and all the *binary* packages should be found (but XLConnect is not one of those). If you are seeing something different, do (a) try the CRAN master (b) report if R.app is not seeing all the packages there. The errors can be seen at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_XLConnect.html: it seems the CRAN Mac build machine does have problems with several packages using rJava. Since the latter is Simon's package, he is probably well aware of it. It is worth pointing out that Java on OS X is something of a security nightmare, and maybe especially on Leopard (which the build machine perforce runs). A couple of my students have found (the hard way) that Macs are not immune to malware. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595