Hi Spencer,
Why don't you want to install 64bit Java?
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:> Hello, All:
>
>
> What do you recommend for reading a Google Spreadsheet into R? I didn't
find
> anything useful using library(sos); findFn('google spreadsheet').
>
>
> I can solve the problem by downloading the file either as *.ods or *.xlsx
> format, then opening it and saving it as *.xls, then using read.xls{gdata}.
>
>
> Alternatives I haven't tried use read.xlsx{xlsx} and
> readWorksheetFromFile{XLConnect} with 32-bit R. Neither of these work for
me
> with 64-bit R, because they can't find an appropriate rJava on my
computer;
> see below. (I've been using 64-bit R with Emacs, so switching to 32-bit
R is
> not completely trivial.) Similarly, read.gnumeric.sheet{gnumeric} requires
> the "external program, ssconvert", which seems not to be
available on my
> computer or installed for 64-bit R.
>
>
> What do you suggest? Avoid 64-bit R unless I really need it? That seems to
> be the message I'm getting from this. (The writeFindFn2xls{sos} also
works
> in 32-bit R but fails in 64-bit apparently for the same reason.)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Spencer
>
>
>> library(xlsx)
> Loading required package: xlsxjars
> Loading required package: rJava
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
> call: fun(libname, pkgname)
> error: No CurrentVersion entry in Software/JavaSoft registry! Try
> re-installing Java and make sure R and Java have matching architectures.
> Error: package ?rJava? could not be loaded
>> library(XLConnect)
> Loading required package: rJava
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
> call: fun(libname, pkgname)
> error: No CurrentVersion entry in Software/JavaSoft registry! Try
> re-installing Java and make sure R and Java have matching architectures.
> Error: package ?rJava? could not be loaded
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-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
>
>
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