[Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Bunny wrote:

> Dear devel-listers, 
> 
> I found a conflct between rJava and data.table. Actually me questions is where to report it? 
> Should I rather send it directly to the package maintainers or post it on some bug tracker. 
> The problem is that data.table has a function called "J" and rJava uses the same quite intensively. 
> I used the  xlsx R package which depends on rJava to write .xls files and ran into an error. 
> 
> write.xls from this package uses the functions and returns an error depending on the sequence the packages
> were loaded. 
> 
> 
> Error in .jnew("org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFWorkbook") : 
>  java.lang.AbstractMethodError: java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;
> 
> 
> data.table::J
> rJava::J
> 
> I can work around this by loading and unloading packages, but I feel this should be addressed because 
> loading these two packages that both deal with tables of data does not seem that unlikely to me. 
> 

Can you elaborate on the details as of where this will be a problem? Packages should not be affected since they should be importing the namespaces from the packages they use, so the only problem would be in a package that uses both data.table and rJava --  and this is easily resolved in the namespace of such package. So there is no technical reason why you can't have multiple definitions of J - that's what namespaces are for.

The error you report is entirely unrelated to J -- at lest in isolation. If you have a reproducible example, please share it.

Cheers,
Simon




> best
> 
> matt
> 
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