Question

I have started to try to use StatET and Texlipse with a view to producing SWEAVE reports. When starting the R console in the StatET plug-in for Eclipse (OS X 10.6.4), I get the message:

[INFO] The R package 'rj' is not available, R-StatET tools cannot be initialized.

Information on http://www.walware.de/goto/statet states:

“The package only works in the default R Console (RJ) in StatET. Therefore you have to install and update it using the command line”:

R CMD INSTALL --no-test-load rj_*.tar.gz

What does this mean exactly?

In Eclipse under “Install new Software” and the site

WalWare - http://download.walware.de/eclipse-3.6

it states that

  RJ Core Library 0.5.0.b201008271600sw

is already installed.

Any helpful guidance gratefully received.

Answer 1

It looks like you need to install the RJ library which can be downloaded from the StatET site here: http://download.walware.de/rj/rj_0.5.0-5.tar.gz (more recent versions of RJ can be found at http://www.walware.de/it/downloads/rj.mframe)

If you save that file on your desktop, you can then load it into R with the command they provided R CMD INSTALL --no-test-load rj_*.tar.gz after navigating to your desktop or wherever you saved the library file. Alternatively, you MAY be able to use the GUI interface and select Install packages from local ZIP files under Packages in R, though I haven’t used R on a Mac so the layout may be slightly different.