Re: [Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2020-03-28 23:07, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 29/03/2020 04:07, Simon Urbanek wrote: Spencer, you could argue that Java is dead since Oracle effectively killed it by removing all public downloads, but if you manage to get hold of a Java installation then it works just fine with R. To my

Re: [Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/03/2020 04:07, Simon Urbanek wrote: Spencer, you could argue that Java is dead since Oracle effectively killed it by removing all public downloads, but if you manage to get hold of a Java installation then it works just fine with R. To my best knowledge there has never been an issue if

Re: [Rd] [BULK] Re: status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Simon Urbanek
Spencer, 1) you don't seem to have working tools on your Mac (check config.log) 2) on Windows you don't have JDK installed I would strongly recommend using the CRAN binaries of rJava 0.9-12 unless you know what you're doing and have all the tools (for Mac use https://mac.R-project.org as mirror

Re: [Rd] [BULK] Re: status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Simon et al.:   My attempts to install rJava 0.9-12 from source failed under both macOS 10.15.4 and Windows 10.   Below please find what I got just now trying "update.packages()" and selecting "install from sources" on both computers followed by "sessionInfo()" in each case.

Re: [Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Simon Urbanek
Spencer, you could argue that Java is dead since Oracle effectively killed it by removing all public downloads, but if you manage to get hold of a Java installation then it works just fine with R. To my best knowledge there has never been an issue if you installed rJava from source. macOS Catal

Re: [Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Ravi Varadhan
I, too, had encountered problems with Java on Windows 10 while I was trying to install the package "xlsx." I tried the fixes I found online, but to no avail. Thanks & Best regards, Ravi From: R-devel on behalf of Gregory Warnes Sent: Saturday, March 28, 202

Re: [Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Gregory Warnes
Hi Spencer, I'm also having problems getting rJava to work on Mac OS X. -G On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 4:19 PM Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello, All: > > >Is Java being deprecated for R? > > >I ask, because I've been unable to get rJava 0.9-11 to work under > either macOS 10.15 or Wind

[Rd] status of Java & rJava?

2020-03-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All:   Is Java being deprecated for R?   I ask, because I've been unable to get rJava 0.9-11 to work under either macOS 10.15 or Windows 10, and I can't get rJava 0.9-12 to install -- and my Ecfun package uses it:   I can't get "R CMD build Ecfun" to work on my Mac nor "R CMD