How can I make rJava use the newer version of java on osx?

Question

I am following this tutorial on rJava: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/helloJavaWorld/vignettes/helloJavaWorld.pdf

I have made all the files as specified in t

Answer 1

I solved the problem by installing from the latest source package on RForge: http://www.rforge.net/rJava/files/

cd /tmp
wget http://www.rforge.net/rJava/snapshot/rJava_0.9-7.tar.gz
R CMD INSTALL rJava_0.9-7.tar.gz

In R:

> library(helloJavaWorld)
Loading required package: rJava
> helloJavaWorld()
[1] "Hello from java!"