[R] xls.getshlib() error in xlsReadWrite package under W7

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:50 PM, milton ruser <milton.ruser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I installed xlsReadWrite package under Windows 7, and got error when trying
> to run xls.getshlib().
> Please, see the errors below:
>
>> require(xlsReadWrite)
> Loading required package: xlsReadWrite
> xlsReadWrite version (cran shlib)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Hans-Peter Suter, Treetron, Switzerland.
>
> !! Your installation contains the cran placeholder shlib (dll/so).
> Please get the regular shlib (420 KB) by executing the following command:
>
>   xls.getshlib()
>

See the workarounds listed on this page in the xlsReadWrite section:

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel