[R-SIG-Mac] installXLSXsupport() error

[Davor Cubranic]

I ran into this some months ago with Rcpp or RcppArmadillo. Switching to source let me install them, but I see that whatever the problem was at the time, has been fixed since because their binaries do now appear in the package installer GUI. I'll check the "check_results" page the next time this happens, thanks for reminding me.

Davor

On 2012-07-16, at 9:43 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 16/07/2012 17:17, Davor Cubranic wrote:
>> You didn't have to go through the command line. In the R GUI's
>> package installer, if you switched package repository to "CRAN
>> (sources)", you would have found XLConnect there too.
>> 
>> You don't mention the version of OS X you're running, but for me with
>> Lion and R 2.15.1, I have the same problem. Most binary packages on
>> CRAN will not be found, and so I always choose to install from
>> source.
> 
> That's not true for me.  Currently 3808 binary packages are available out of 3912 source packages, and all the *binary* packages should be found (but XLConnect is not one of those).  If you are seeing something different, do
> 
> (a) try the CRAN master
> (b) report if R.app is not seeing all the packages there.
> 
> The errors can be seen at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_XLConnect.html: it seems the CRAN Mac build machine does have problems with several packages using rJava.  Since the latter is Simon's package, he is probably well aware of it.
> 
> It is worth pointing out that Java on OS X is something of a security nightmare, and maybe especially on Leopard (which the build machine perforce runs).  A couple of my students have found (the hard way) that Macs are not immune to malware.
> 
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