[R] Installing packages "xslx" on Ubuntu (32bit) [On R 2.14.1]

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Hmm, there is no such package: did you mean xlsx?

However, your R is old and quite a few packages are not available for 
it.  Please do as the posting guide suggests and update to R 2.15.1 (or 
R-patched).


On 25/07/2012 09:47, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just recently changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit). Now I tried to install some packages required by my old and working scripts. Unfortunately I fail when trying to install the package "xslx". Maybe it is related to the 32bit version of my R (its not possible to install a 64 bit version).
>
> Can anyone help me to sucessfully install xslx?
>
> Here some console output (e.g. sessionInfo()):
>
>> install.packages("xslx")
> Installing package(s) into '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>    package 'xslx' is not available (for R version 2.14.1)
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tcltk_2.14.1 tools_2.14.1
>>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> /Johannes
>
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