Unable to install xlsx package on R version 3.1.3

r install.packages
nasim picture nasim · Jul 13, 2015 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

When I run install.packages("xlsx") I get this:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Zahra/Documents/R/win-library/3.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning: unable to access index for repository https://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/windows/contrib/3.1 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.rforge.net/bin/windows/contrib/3.1 Warning message: package ‘xlsx’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.1.3)

I already tried setRepositories and a couple of more things but no luck! I appreciate any comments

Answer

nasim picture nasim · Jul 13, 2015

I found my own answer! I figured the problem was that for installing all those packages, the required package was "rjava" that couldn't be loaded. The reason was the fact I am using a 64-bit OS and R version but do not have Java installed with the same architecture.I downloaded Java 64-bit(Windows Offline (64-bit)) from this page: https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp After that just reloaded the xlsx package and it worked

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