[R] Error loading "XLConnect" library

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi,

When you experience errors with a third party package like that, one of 
the first steps to take is to review the results of CRAN testing on the 
package. That is available via the "CRAN checks:" link on the package page:

   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XLConnect/index.html

That link takes you to:

   https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_XLConnect.html

where you can see that there are NOTEs and ERRORs being reported across 
multiple platforms.

I would therefore contact the package maintainer and inquire as to the 
current status of the package, plans to resolve the outstanding issues, 
and a workaround in the mean time.

 From a review of the Issues page on the package's Github site, there 
appear to be a number of such reports already:

   https://github.com/miraisolutions/xlconnect/issues

So you may want to review those communications first.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


Bernard McGarvey wrote on 4/14/21 1:42 PM:
> I installed the "XLConnect" package which appears to be successful and then tried to load the "XLConnect" library and got an error as shown below. Any ideas as to where to look for the source of the error? The word "release" in the error message makes me think it is some issue with the version of "XLConnect" but that is just a guess.
> 
> I am running the latest version of R available on CRAN on Windows 10.
> 
>> install.packages("XLConnect")
> Installing package into ‘E:/Data/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/XLConnect_1.0.3.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 29498979 bytes (28.1 MB)
> downloaded 28.1 MB
> package ‘XLConnect’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpARt8Er\downloaded_packages
> 
>> library(XLConnect)
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘XLConnect’:
> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'XLConnect', details:
> call: system2("cat", c("/etc/*-release"), stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE)
> error: '"cat"' not found
> 
>> library("XLConnect")
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘XLConnect’:
> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'XLConnect', details:
> call: system2("cat", c("/etc/*-release"), stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE)
> error: '"cat"' not found
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Bernard McGarvey
> 
> Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow).
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