On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Simon Urbanek
wrote:
>
> It’s a limitation of the Java runtime - you cannot fork a JVM. This is true
> for most libraries that use long-lived threads or any kind if UI (see the
> warnings in mcfork).
Is there some way to reset or restart the JVM within the fork?
On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Karl Forner wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I got an issue trying to parse excel files in parallel using XLConnect, the
> process hangs forever.
> Martin Studer, the maintainer of XLConnect kindly investigated the issue,
> identified rJava as a possible cause of the problem
Thanks Malcolm,
But it does seem to solve the problem.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> Karl,
>
> I have the following notes to self that may be pertinent:
>
> options(java.parameters=
> ## Must preceed `library(XLConnect)` in order to prevent "Java
>
Karl,
I have the following notes to self that may be pertinent:
options(java.parameters=
## Must preceed `library(XLConnect)` in order to prevent "Java
## requested System.exit(130), closing R." which happens when
## rJava quits R upon trapping INT (control-c), as is do
