Thanks Marc Bernard Sent from my iPhone so please excuse the spelling!"
> On Apr 14, 2021, at 2:20 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > When you experience errors with a third party package like that, one of the > first steps to take is to review the results of CRAN testing on the package. > That is available via the "CRAN checks:" link on the package page: > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XLConnect/index.html > > That link takes you to: > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_XLConnect.html > > where you can see that there are NOTEs and ERRORs being reported across > multiple platforms. > > I would therefore contact the package maintainer and inquire as to the > current status of the package, plans to resolve the outstanding issues, and a > workaround in the mean time. > > From a review of the Issues page on the package's Github site, there appear > to be a number of such reports already: > > https://github.com/miraisolutions/xlconnect/issues > > So you may want to review those communications first. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > > Bernard McGarvey wrote on 4/14/21 1:42 PM: >> I installed the "XLConnect" package which appears to be successful and then >> tried to load the "XLConnect" library and got an error as shown below. Any >> ideas as to where to look for the source of the error? The word "release" in >> the error message makes me think it is some issue with the version of >> "XLConnect" but that is just a guess. >> I am running the latest version of R available on CRAN on Windows 10. >>> install.packages("XLConnect") >> Installing package into ‘E:/Data/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’ >> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) >> trying URL >> 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/XLConnect_1.0.3.zip' >> Content type 'application/zip' length 29498979 bytes (28.1 MB) >> downloaded 28.1 MB >> package ‘XLConnect’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> The downloaded binary packages are in >> C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpARt8Er\downloaded_packages >>> library(XLConnect) >> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘XLConnect’: >> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'XLConnect', details: >> call: system2("cat", c("/etc/*-release"), stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE) >> error: '"cat"' not found >>> library("XLConnect") >> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘XLConnect’: >> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'XLConnect', details: >> call: system2("cat", c("/etc/*-release"), stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE) >> error: '"cat"' not found >> Thanks >> Bernard McGarvey >> Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc. >> Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow). >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
