Hi Gabor,
> Please start at a fresh version of R. Copy and paste your session
> from the R console rather than relating what happened. Also, what
> version of gdata are you using? Older versions did not have
> installXLSXsupport. Show:
> packageDescription("gdata")$Version
> win.version()
> R.version.string
> packageDescription("gdata")$Version
[1] "2.8.1"
> win.version()
[1] "Windows 7 x64 (build 7600)"
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)"
Both 32 and 64 bits
>> 2)
>> library(gdata)
>> data()
>> gdata is added to the list of master dataset package
> This is not clear. Please provide exact and complete output.
File gdata_output.txt is attached to this email.
Following lines are added to the bottom of the file:-
Data sets in package ‘gdata’:
MedUnits Table of conversions between Intertional
Standard (SI) and US
- end -
B.R.
Stephen L
________________________________
From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:31:18 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata?
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
> - snip -
> ..
>> > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:utils':
>>
>> >: object.size
>>This is just a message that it can't find perl. If you don't need to
>> use read.xls then you don't need perl so you can ignore the message.
>> If you do need to use read.xls then install perl and once you have
>> done that then run installXLSXsupport().
>
> After having installed Strawberry perl the warning disappears.
>
> library(gdata)
> ?read.xls
> works starting "Read Excel files"
>
> I haven't run installXLSXsupport() afterwards.
>
> Just did it without success.
>
>> installXLSXsupport()
> Error: could not find function "installXLSXsupport"
>
> Couldn't proceed further.
Please start at a fresh version of R. Copy and paste your session
from the R console rather than relating what happened. Also, what
version of gdata are you using? Older versions did not have
installXLSXsupport. Show:
packageDescription("gdata")$Version
win.version()
R.version.string
>
>
> I can't resolve follows;
>
> 1)
> library(AER)
> data()
> starts the datasets of AER
>
> 2)
> library(gdata)
> data()
> gdata is added to the list of master dataset package
This is not clear. Please provide exact and complete output.
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>
> To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>; r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 8:39:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata?
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi Liviu,
>>
>>> Not if you
>>> library(gdata)
>>> first. Then
>>> ?read.xls
>>
>>> should work.
>>
>> Yes, I did.
>>
>>
>> I found something strange here which I can't explain.
>>
>> Win 7 64bit
>> R 32/64 bit
>>
>> Just rebooted Win 7 and R
>>
>>> library(gdata)
>> gdata: Unable to locate valid perl interpreter
>> gdata:
>> gdata: read.xls() will be unable to read Excel XLS and XLSX files
>> gdata: unless the 'perl=' argument is used to specify the location of a
>> gdata: valid perl intrpreter.
>> gdata:
>> gdata: (To avoid display of this message in the future, please ensure
>> gdata: perl is installed and available on the executable search path.)
>> 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.
>>
>> Attaching package: 'gdata'
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:utils':
>>
>> object.size
>
> This is just a message that it can't find perl. If you don't need to
> use read.xls then you don't need perl so you can ignore the message.
> If you do need to use read.xls then install perl and once you have
> done that then run installXLSXsupport().
>
>>
>>
>> It complains.
>>
>>
>>> ?read.xls
>> starting httpd help server ... done
>>
>> "Read Excel files"
>>
>>
>> Both 32 and 64 bit R worked.
>>
>>
>> If there is NO complaint on running;
>>
>>> library(gdata)
>>
>> Then
>>> ?read.xls
>>
>> can't work.
>
> Can you clarify when ?read.xls works for you and when it does not?
>
>>
>>
>> Perl seems has been installed. But I can't recall, when and how;
>>
>> C:\>dir C:\Users\satimiswin764\Documents\R\win-library\2.12\gdata\
>> .....
>> 11/22/2010 10:44 AM <DIR> perl
>> 11/22/2010 10:44 AM <DIR> R
>> 11/22/2010 10:44 AM <DIR> unitTests
>> 11/22/2010 10:44 AM <DIR> xls
>
>
> The gdata\perl folder contains perl libraries that come with gdata.
> Perl itself is not distributed with gdata and you don't need perl at
> all to use gdata except for read.xls and related functions.
>
> My understanding is that this question has nothing to do with perl nor
> with read.xls and that the problem is that you seem to be able to run
> this:
>
> library(gdata)
> ?read.xls
>
> and sometimes it works and at other times it does not work. Is that
> right? Does it occur with any other package? How about removing
> gdata and reinstalling it?
>
> remove.packages("gdata")
> ... exit R and check if gdata has been removed ...
> ... restart R ...
> install.packages("gdata")
>
>
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Data sets in package âdatasetsâ:
AirPassengers Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
BJsales Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BJsales.lead (BJsales)
Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CO2 Carbon Dioxide Uptake in Grass Plants
ChickWeight Weight versus age of chicks on different diets
DNase Elisa assay of DNase
EuStockMarkets Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
Indices, 1991-1998
Formaldehyde Determination of Formaldehyde
HairEyeColor Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students
Harman23.cor Harman Example 2.3
Harman74.cor Harman Example 7.4
Indometh Pharmacokinetics of Indomethicin
InsectSprays Effectiveness of Insect Sprays
JohnsonJohnson Quarterly Earnings per Johnson & Johnson Share
LakeHuron Level of Lake Huron 1875-1972
LifeCycleSavings Intercountry Life-Cycle Savings Data
Loblolly Growth of Loblolly pine trees
Nile Flow of the River Nile
Orange Growth of Orange Trees
OrchardSprays Potency of Orchard Sprays
PlantGrowth Results from an Experiment on Plant Growth
Puromycin Reaction Velocity of an Enzymatic Reaction
Seatbelts Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
Theoph Pharmacokinetics of Theophylline
Titanic Survival of passengers on the Titanic
ToothGrowth The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in
Guinea Pigs
UCBAdmissions Student Admissions at UC Berkeley
UKDriverDeaths Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
UKgas UK Quarterly Gas Consumption
USAccDeaths Accidental Deaths in the US 1973-1978
USArrests Violent Crime Rates by US State
USJudgeRatings Lawyers' Ratings of State Judges in the US
Superior Court
USPersonalExpenditure Personal Expenditure Data
VADeaths Death Rates in Virginia (1940)
WWWusage Internet Usage per Minute
WorldPhones The World's Telephones
ability.cov Ability and Intelligence Tests
airmiles Passenger Miles on Commercial US Airlines,
1937-1960
airquality New York Air Quality Measurements
anscombe Anscombe's Quartet of "Identical" Simple Linear
Regressions
attenu The Joyner-Boore Attenuation Data
attitude The Chatterjee-Price Attitude Data
austres Quarterly Time Series of the Number of
Australian Residents
beaver1 (beavers) Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
beaver2 (beavers) Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
cars Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars
chickwts Chicken Weights by Feed Type
co2 Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
crimtab Student's 3000 Criminals Data
discoveries Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries
esoph Smoking, Alcohol and (O)esophageal Cancer
euro Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
euro.cross (euro) Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
eurodist Distances Between European Cities
faithful Old Faithful Geyser Data
fdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
freeny Freeny's Revenue Data
freeny.x (freeny) Freeny's Revenue Data
freeny.y (freeny) Freeny's Revenue Data
infert Infertility after Spontaneous and Induced
Abortion
iris Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
iris3 Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
islands Areas of the World's Major Landmasses
ldeaths (UKLungDeaths)
Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
lh Luteinizing Hormone in Blood Samples
longley Longley's Economic Regression Data
lynx Annual Canadian Lynx trappings 1821-1934
mdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
morley Michaelson-Morley Speed of Light Data
mtcars Motor Trend Car Road Tests
nhtemp Average Yearly Temperatures in New Haven
nottem Average Monthly Temperatures at Nottingham,
1920-1939
occupationalStatus Occupational Status of Fathers and their Sons
precip Annual Precipitation in US Cities
presidents Quarterly Approval Ratings of US Presidents
pressure Vapor Pressure of Mercury as a Function of
Temperature
quakes Locations of Earthquakes off Fiji
randu Random Numbers from Congruential Generator
RANDU
rivers Lengths of Major North American Rivers
rock Measurements on Petroleum Rock Samples
sleep Student's Sleep Data
stack.loss (stackloss)
Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
stack.x (stackloss) Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
stackloss Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
state.abb (state) US State Facts and Figures
state.area (state) US State Facts and Figures
state.center (state) US State Facts and Figures
state.division (state)
US State Facts and Figures
state.name (state) US State Facts and Figures
state.region (state) US State Facts and Figures
state.x77 (state) US State Facts and Figures
sunspot.month Monthly Sunspot Data, 1749-1997
sunspot.year Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988
sunspots Monthly Sunspot Numbers, 1749-1983
swiss Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators
(1888) Data
treering Yearly Treering Data, -6000-1979
trees Girth, Height and Volume for Black Cherry Trees
uspop Populations Recorded by the US Census
volcano Topographic Information on Auckland's Maunga
Whau Volcano
warpbreaks The Number of Breaks in Yarn during Weaving
women Average Heights and Weights for American Women
Data sets in package âgdataâ:
MedUnits Table of conversions between Intertional
Standard (SI) and US
Use âdata(package = .packages(all.available = TRUE))â
to list the data sets in all *available* packages.
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