[R] read.xlsx function crashing R Studio

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 16:44:56 CEST 2016


Or readxl.

Hadley

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:54 AM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> try the openxlsx package
>
>
> Jim Holtman
> Data Munger Guru
>
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Kevin Kowitski <k.kowitski at icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>>    I have used read.xlsx in the past rather than XLConnect for importing
>> Excel data to R.  However, I have been finding now that the read.xlsx
>> function has been causing my R studio to Time out.  I thought it might be
>> because the R studio I had was out of date so I installed R studio X64
>> 3.3.1 and reinstalled the xlsx package but it is still failing.  I have
>> been trying to use XLConnect in it's place which has been working, excpet
>> that I am running into memory error:
>>               Error: OutOfMemoryError (Java): GC overhead limit exceeded
>>
>> I did some online searching and found an option to increase memory:
>>               "options(java.parameters = "-Xmx4g" )
>>
>> but it resulted in this new memory Error:
>>
>>              Error: OutOfMemoryError (Java): Java heap space
>>
>> Can anyone provide me with some help on getting the read.xlsx function
>> working?
>>
>> -Kevin
>>
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