The issue has been resolved. Thank you for the reply, Karpinski.
On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 11:31:47 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Looks like your JVM instance is running out of memory. Does opening this > file in plain POI work? If not then this is a Java issue. You may be able > to increase the heap size of the JVM. > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Pramod Srinivasan <spm...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> After trying out a few demos in Taro <https://github.com/aviks/Taro.jl>, >> I am unable to extract data from a xls file. The error signatures are : >> >> *ERROR: Error calling Java: >> org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unable to construct >> record instance* >> *.....* >> >> *Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded* >> >> My excel file is not write-protected. Neither does it have any filters. I >> see that the same error has been filed in Apache POI but am not able to >> make progress. >> >> Am I missing something here? >> >> *File Details* : http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/ >> >> *Command Repro * : Taro.readxl("path/to/xls/file/","Sheet1","A1:CW24") >> >> >
