[R] Where is gdata?

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Greg, Stephen, Liviu:


       I tried "install.packages('gregmisc')", which Stephen said he 
had.  Then " help(pac=gdata)" seemed to work normally.  However, when I 
then tried "library(gdata)", I got an error message from the the 
operating system, saying "perl.exe has stopped working".  I cancelled 
past that and got a message "gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed 
by read.xls() ... Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'".  I tried 
'installXLSXsupport()' and again perl stopped working.  I quit R and 
tried "install.packages('gdata')" again, and it killed perl again.


       Before installing 'gregmisc', I had tried 
install.packages('gdata') by itself.  That seemed to work.  Then I 
manually removed it and tried 'gregmisc', as Stephen had, and got 
problems I don't know how to solve.


       ???
       Thanks,
       Spencer

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 > library(gdata)
gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLX' (Excel 97-2004) files.

gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files.

gdata: Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'
gdata: to automatically download and install the perl
gdata: libaries needed to support Excel XLS and XLSX formats.


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 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] gdata_2.8.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtools_2.6.2 tools_2.12.0
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On 11/28/2010 4:22 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Stephen Liu<satimis at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> library(gdata)
>>> gdata
>> Error: object 'gdata' not found
>>
>>> gdata()
>> Error: could not find function "gdata"
>>
>>
>> Please advise what mistake I have committed.  TIA
>>
> Try
> help(package=gdata)
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
>
>> B.R.
>> Stephen L
>>
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