Thanks Marc

Bernard
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> 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).
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