R/RStudio, Yosemite, and Java

Question

I upgraded to OSX Yosemite yesterday. When I run library(xlsx) in RStudio, the program crashes and I get the message: \"To open \'RStudio\' you need to

Answer 1

This worked for me: setting two env variables in ~/.profile

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/server

I can install the rJava and xlsx packages in Rstudio as such. Admittedly, though, it took hours of tinkering around (mindlessly) to get it just right.