Gdata package perl issue

Question

I am attempting to follow this easy 2-minute video tutorial on importing an Excel spreadsheet into R as a data frame: http://www.screenr.com/QiN8

I followed each step, i

Answer 1

I have recently got the same problem with gdata package and Strawberry Perl software under Windows 10. The solution in my case is as follows: (1) uninstall an old version of the Strawberry Perl -- if you try to install new version over the old one, it says that it is not upgradable, (2) install a new version downloaded from this link to C:/Strawberry/, (3) add C:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe to 'Path' in User variables of the Environment Variables window.