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

I had the same issue. I'm using OS X Yosemite and initially had installed R through homebrew

I performed the following steps to fix it:

1. Closed all instances of R
2. In my terminal shell, ran sudo R CMD javareconf

3. Opened up R from my terminal and ran:

   install_packages("rJava")

   install_packages("xlsx")