R help - Jul 2010 - xls.getshlib() error in xlsReadWrite package under W7

Dear all,

I installed xlsReadWrite package under Windows 7, and got error when trying
to run xls.getshlib().
Please, see the errors below:
> require(xlsReadWrite)
Loading required package: xlsReadWrite
xlsReadWrite version (cran shlib)
Copyright (C) 2010 Hans-Peter Suter, Treetron, Switzerland.

!! Your installation contains the cran placeholder shlib (dll/so).
Please get the regular shlib (420 KB) by executing the following command:

   xls.getshlib()

Info, forum, issue tracker and manual download at http://www.swissr.org.

BACKGROUND: Our own xlsReadWrite code is free, but we also use proprietary
code
(Flexcel, tmssoftware.com) which can only be distributed legally in
precompiled,
i.e. binary form. As CRAN 'generally does not accept submissions of
precompiled
binaries due to security reasons' we only provide a placeholder and you can
download the binary shlib separately. NO GUARANTEES: We have done thorough
tests
initially and there are integrity checks, but we do _not_ give any
guarantees.
You can check/clone the source code at http://github.com/swissr/xlsreadwrite
,
in case of any issues we are happy to hear about them (bug
tracker/forum/email).
> xls.getshlib()
Loading required package: tools
--- xls.getshlib running... ---
  - zipped shlib has been downloaded from '
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2602516/swissrpkg/bin/win32/shlib/xlsReadWrite_1.5.1_dll.zip'
to 'C:\Users\Miltinho\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp2cUZxb/xlsReadWrite.zip'
  - md5 hash value has been read from '
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2602516/swissrpkg/bin/win32/shlib/xlsReadWrite_1.5.1_dll.zip.md5.txt'

  - zipped shlib has correct md5 hash
  - zipped shlib has been extracted
to'C:\Users\Miltinho\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp2cUZxb/xlsReadWrite.dll'
  - try to unload existing shlib
'C:\Users\Miltinho\Documents/R/win-library/2.11/xlsReadWrite/libs/xlsReadWrite.dll'
- try to unload existing shlib
'C:/PROGRA~2/R/R-211~1.0/library/xlsReadWrite/libs/xlsReadWrite.dll'
Error in file.rename(fp, fp.backup) : 'source' must be a single string
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In if (!file.exists(fp)) stop("existing (cran) shlib could not be found
at '",  :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
2: In if (file.exists(fp.backup)) file.remove(fp.backup) :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
i386-pc-mingw32

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] xlsReadWrite_1.5.1


Cheers

milton

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:50 PM, milton ruser <milton.ruser at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I installed xlsReadWrite package under Windows 7, and got error when trying
> to run xls.getshlib().
> Please, see the errors below:
>
>> require(xlsReadWrite)
> Loading required package: xlsReadWrite
> xlsReadWrite version (cran shlib)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Hans-Peter Suter, Treetron, Switzerland.
>
> !! Your installation contains the cran placeholder shlib (dll/so).
> Please get the regular shlib (420 KB) by executing the following command:
>
> ? xls.getshlib()
>
See the workarounds listed on this page in the xlsReadWrite section:

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows&s=excel