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

Using the old Java SE 6 I was able to get rJava compiled by running javareconf as follows:

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home \
JAVA_CPPFLAGS=-I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Headers/ \
r CMD javareconf