[R] Where is gdata?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>      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
>
> ##############################
>
>> 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.
>

Read ?installXLSXsupport

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