Cole Arendt

Maybe see if using `normalizePath` or `path.expand` inside the functions will create a nicer API in this context.

Thanks for the note! Just FYI, you are able to edit github comments (see ... in the top right corner of the comment)

Awesome! Thanks for testing that! Upgrading xlsxjars to the latest Apache POI is definitely something we want to do. It's definitely helpful to have a bug pushing us towards doing...

Yeah, sorry for not clarifying here. I have taken over maintainership of both packages, and have unfortunately been a bit lax about maintaining. My apologies there. My underlying concern about...

I totally agree that the way that R packages and Java dependencies are used together is painful, and could use some thoughts. Unfortunately, such a problem is probably a bit...

Note that it seems this is a data.frame with a list-column. Workaround was to compress the column to a string... not sure if this is something worth addressing within the...

Strange!! Are you using RStudio here? I see this message: > To open Rstudio, you need to install the legacy java SE 6 runtime. What version of RStudio are you...

@RE-Chief I am not super familiar with `.xls` objects (as they _are_ quite old), however, I believe `read.xlsx`, `write.xlsx` and friends are not going to be super helpful (as is...

@RE-Chief Did you try using `loadWorkbook()` as I showed above? Can you share the results of your output, the errors, etc.? My expectation is that `loadWorkbook()` along with `readRows()`, `readColumns()`...

Also, you might try `readxl`, which seems to support `xls` as well: https://readxl.tidyverse.org/