Install xlsx and rJava on macOS Mavericks 10.9.5

Question

Its being a real nightmare to install rjava on my Mac.

My setup:

MacOS 10.9.5
Java: 7u71 (64 bits dowloaded from Oracle site)
R: R version 3.1.1 (201         


        

Answer 1

What I did (using macports R) as root (sudo bash):

• edit /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/Makeconf and change the line

  LIBS =  -llzma -lm -liconv -licuuc -licui18n
  

  to

  LIBS =  -llzma -lm -liconv
  

• install the original 1.6 Mac Java

• export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

• run R CMD javareconf

Now you can start R and do a install.packages("rJava"). Using the 1.6 version of Java made sure that also RStudio can load the rJava package.

If you do not plan using RStudio, you can also use Java 1.8