On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:43 PM, 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. >
No, it's a problem (or feature) in XLConnect using Java 1.6 classes which are unsupported on OS X (only Java 1.5 or lower is supported in 32 and 64-bit). > 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. > Apple has abandoned Java few years ago, so it's just lingering there (all new installations come without Java) - yes, it's not a good situation. Oracle has promised taking over but it's still a mess. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
