[R] Problem with xlsx package

[Tobias Verbeke]

On 02/10/2011 05:30 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Nikhil Joshi<nikhiljoshi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Gabor,
>> thanks for the suggestion.
>> I did as you have suggested- Started a clean session of R and set the java
>> option.  Then I sourced the library and tried to read the xlsx file but got
>> the same error.  I am assuming that Java machine is loaded when the package
>> xlsx is sourced and not when the base package is sourced (or in other words
>> upon starting a new R session).  Or am I totally off?
>> Regards
>> Nikhil
>>
>
> The JVM would be initialized when xlsx is loaded or when certain
> functions in the package are called depending on how the package was
> written so as long as you set the java.parameters option prior to
> issuing the library(xlsx) command you should be ok.  If that does not
> work and assuming the number I suggested is big enough then it must be
> something else.  You could try contacting the author to see if other
> users have experienced this.
>
> If you still can't get it to work there are a number of alternatives
> listed here:
> http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows

There is also this recent thread on rosuda-devel which might
be of instructive:

http://mailman.rz.uni-augsburg.de/pipermail/stats-rosuda-devel/2011q1/001621.html

Best,
Tobias