[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg update on "Error in dimnames(x) <- dn : 'dimnames' applied to non-array"

[John Laing]

Cliff,

The current version of rJava is 0.9-3. If you're not familiar with
installing packages in R, your best bet is to use the install.packages
function.

Hope that helps,
John

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Cliff Clive <cliffclive at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a hard time installing rJava 0.8-8 on a Windows machine.
>
> When I try installing from a .tar.gz file, I get this error:
> Warning in install.packages :
>  error 1 in extracting from zip file
> Warning in install.packages :
>  cannot open compressed file 'rJava_0.8-8.tar/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
> 'No such file or directory'
>
> When I try installing from the .tar file, I get the same error.
> I tried just extracting the rJava folder and putting it into the folder with
> my other R files, and it didn't work.
> I tried zipping the rJava folder and installing from the .zip file, which
> seemed to work, but then when I tried to load library(rJava), it said that
> it is not a valid installed package.
>
> Obviously I'm not very good at this stuff.  Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
>
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