[R] Where is gdata?

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       Prof. Ripley suggested I remove RTools/perl from my path.  I did 
that leaving Strawberry perl.  Then everything seemed to work 
appropriately.


       Thanks to all.
       Spencer


On 11/28/2010 7:49 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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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