[R-SIG-Mac] installXLSXsupport() error

[Ian Fellows]

You only loaded the JAR package, not the actual XLConnect package.

install.packages("XLConnect")
library(XLConnect)


On Jul 14, 2012, at 10:59 AM, <Ricardo.Julio.Rodriguez.Fernandez at sergas.es> wrote:

> Thanks, Ian! It seems like an impressive improvement providing a comprehensive set of functions to interact with XLSX spreadsheets!
> 
> But I'm afraid I'm missing something. Please, check this...
> 
> *****
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] XLConnectJars_0.1-4 rJava_0.9-3         foreign_0.8-50
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.1
>> wb <- loadWorkbook("XLConnect.xlsx", create = TRUE)
> Error: could not find function "loadWorkbook"
>> 
> *****
> 
> Please, do you know why am I not able to use loadWorkbook function? Other functions like existsSheet() or extractSheetName(). Always same error: Error: could not find function "concerned function".
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Ian Fellows [ian.fellows at stat.ucla.edu]
> Sent: 14 July 2012 19:21
> To: Rodriguez Fernandez, Ricardo Julio
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installXLSXsupport() error
> 
> much better support for Excel is available via the XLConnect and xlsx packages. I would recommend that you give them a try.
> 
> ian
> 
> On Jul 14, 2012, at 9:15 AM, <Ricardo.Julio.Rodriguez.Fernandez at sergas.es> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Until now I've survive exporting my spreadsheets to CSV files, but this process is a error-prone as it is by no means easy to keep track of updated releases. Some weeks ago a new thread here talked about reading XLSX files by using gdata(): it would be really great to be able to get this working here, but I'm running into some trouble. Gdata works fine to read XLS format, but I'm not able to get XLSX support. Please, check this outputs. First of all: sessionInfo()...
>> 
>> *****
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] gdata_2.11.0   foreign_0.8-50
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] gtools_2.7.0
>>> 
>>> library(gdata)
>> gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED.
>> 
>> gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
>> gdata: to support 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files.
>> 
>> gdata: Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'
>> gdata: to automatically download and install the perl
>> gdata: libaries needed to support Excel XLS and XLSX formats.
>> 
>> Attaching package: ‘gdata’
>> 
>> The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:utils’:
>> 
>>   object.size
>> 
>> The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:stats’:
>> 
>>   nobs
>> 
>>> xlsFormats()
>> [1] "XLS"
>>> installXLSXsupport(verbose=TRUE)
>> Using perl at /usr/bin/perl
>> 
>> Attempting to automaticall install Perl libraries to support XLSX (Excel 2007+) file format...
>> 
>> Results:
>> Using perl at /usr/bin/perl
>> 
>> Determining supported formats...
>> 
>> Results:  Supported formats: XLS
>> Error in installXLSXsupport(verbose = TRUE) :
>> Unable to install Perl XLSX support libraries.
>> 
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> running command ''/usr/bin/perl' '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/gdata/perl/install_modules.pl'' had status 22
>> Can't locate object method "load" via package "CPAN::HandleConfig" (perhaps you forgot to load "CPAN::HandleConfig"?) at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/gdata/perl/module_tools.pl line 89.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Error in installXLSXsupport(verbose = TRUE) :
>> Unable to install Perl XLSX support libraries.
>> 
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> running command ''/usr/bin/perl' '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/gdata/perl/install_modules.pl'' had status 22
>> Can't locate object method "load" via package "CPAN::HandleConfig" (perhaps you forgot to load "CPAN::HandleConfig"?) at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/gdata/perl/module_tools.pl line 89.
>> *****
>> 
>> I've read ?installXLSXsupport and I think I've correctly installed Compress::Raw::Zlib and Spreadsheet::XLSX from terminal (by using sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Name'). I've even tried with a different Perl flavour, ActivePerl, but got a different set of errors. I'm afraid I'll make my installation an awfull mess if I keep trying to get an answer on my own! Please, could you help me? Do you know where am I wrong? How could I get XLSX support working in my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.8?
>> 
>> Thank you so much for your help,
>> 
>> Ricardo
>> 
>> --
>> Ricardo Rodríguez
>> Research Management and Promotion Technician
>> Technical Secretariat
>> Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS)
>> http://www.idisantiago.es
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