I have the same problem and same Java error.
> sessionInfo() R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] grDevices datasets splines graphics stats tcltk utils methods base other attached packages: [1] xlsx_0.3.0 xlsxjars_0.3.0 rJava_0.9-1 plyr_1.6 stringr_0.5 sqldf_0.4-2 [7] chron_2.3-42 gsubfn_0.5-7 proto_0.3-9.2 RSQLite.extfuns_0.0.1 RSQLite_0.9-4 DBI_0.2-5 [13] RODBC_1.3-3 svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_2.2 Hmisc_3.8-3 survival_2.36-9 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] cluster_1.14.0 grid_2.13.1 lattice_0.19-30 svMisc_0.9-63 tools_2.13.1 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-xlsx-package-tp3298470p4169522.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.