[R-SIG-Mac] build of package xlsx fails on Mac

[Simon Urbanek]

Adrian,

I think I have a déjà vu:

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg04964.html

Cheers,
Simon


On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:54 , Adrian Dragulescu wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> One user pointed to me that the build of package xlsx fails on Mac.   
> I did not change anything on CRAN since I've uploaded the package.   
> I believe it used to work fine.
>
> The issue is Java specific as my package uses rJava.  When running  
> the examples, one gets:
> checking Rd contents ... OK
> checking examples ... ERROR
> Running examples in 'xlsx-Ex.R' failed.
> The error most likely occurred in:
>
>> ### * CellStyle
>>
>> flush(stderr()); flush(stdout())
>>
>> ### Name: CellStyle
>> ### Title: Functions to manipulate cells.
>> ### Aliases: CellStyle createCellStyle setCellStyle getCellStyle
>>
>> ### ** Examples
>>
>>
>> wb <- createWorkbook()
>> sheet <- createSheet(wb, "Sheet1")
>>
>> rows <- createRow(sheet, rowIndex=1)
>>
>> cell.1 <- createCell(rows, colIndex=1)[[1,1]]
>> setCellValue(cell.1, "Hello R!")
>>
>> cellStyle1 <- createCellStyle(wb, borderPosition="RIGHT",
> + borderPen="BORDER_DASHED", fillBackgroundColor="yellow",
> + fillForegroundColor="tomato", fillPattern="BIG_SPOTS")
> 2010-02-15 12:47:54.174 R[33120:613] Apple AWT Java VM was loaded on  
> first thread -- can't start AWT.
> Error in .jnew("java.awt.Color", rgb[1], rgb[2], rgb[3]) :
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
> Calls: createCellStyle -> .jcall -> .xssfcolor -> .jnew -> .External
> Execution halted
>
> Let me know if there is something on my side that I need to do.  Of  
> course, I can \dontrun the example.
>
> Thank you,
> Adrian
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:41:40 -0800
> From: Ralf Tautenhahn <rtautenh at scripps.edu>
> To: Adrian Dragulescu <adrian_d at eskimo.com>
> Subject: RE: xlsx and binary data
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I see that the xlsx build  fails on Mac:
> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/xlsx-00check.html
>
> I hope this is only a temporary problem ?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf.
>
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