On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Spencer Graves <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried "install.packages('gregmisc')", which Stephen said he had. > Then " help(pac=gdata)" seemed to work normally. However, when I then > tried "library(gdata)", I got an error message from the the operating > system, saying "perl.exe has stopped working". I cancelled past that and > got a message "gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls() ... > Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'". I tried 'installXLSXsupport()' > and again perl stopped working. I quit R and tried > "install.packages('gdata')" again, and it killed perl again. > > > Before installing 'gregmisc', I had tried install.packages('gdata') by > itself. That seemed to work. Then I manually removed it and tried > 'gregmisc', as Stephen had, and got problems I don't know how to solve. > > > ??? > Thanks, > Spencer > > ############################## > >> library(gdata) > gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls() > gdata: to support 'XLX' (Excel 97-2004) files. > > 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. >
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