Hi, Greg, Stephen, Liviu:

I tried "install.packages('gregmisc')", which Stephen said he had. Then " help(pac=gdata)" seemed to work normally. However, when I then tried "library(gdata)", I got an error message from the the operating system, saying "perl.exe has stopped working". I cancelled past that and got a message "gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls() ... Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'". I tried 'installXLSXsupport()' and again perl stopped working. I quit R and tried "install.packages('gdata')" again, and it killed perl again.


Before installing 'gregmisc', I had tried install.packages('gdata') by itself. That seemed to work. Then I manually removed it and tried 'gregmisc', as Stephen had, and got problems I don't know how to solve.


      ???
      Thanks,
      Spencer

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> library(gdata)
gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLX' (Excel 97-2004) files.

gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files.

gdata: Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'
gdata: to automatically download and install the perl
gdata: libaries needed to support Excel XLS and XLSX formats.


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> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] gdata_2.8.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtools_2.6.2 tools_2.12.0
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On 11/28/2010 4:22 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Stephen Liu<sati...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
library(gdata)
gdata
Error: object 'gdata' not found

gdata()
Error: could not find function "gdata"


Please advise what mistake I have committed.  TIA

Try
help(package=gdata)

Regards
Liviu


B.R.
Stephen L



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