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

This worked for me:

sudo R CMD javareconf

Then, in the R interpretor:

install.packages('rJava', type='source')
install.packages('xlsx', type='source')