#DOWNLAD RJAVA IN R MAC FOR MAC#

Since I had already installed the latest version of OracleвЂ™s jdk from, I skipped the step. I downloaded the legacy Java 6 runtime from and installed the downloaded. I already had XCode command line tools installed, so I started at section Java 6. The post available at solved my problem with rJava on Mac OS X 10.11.2. 1.8.0_66) of OracleвЂ™s Java at the same time. As shown in the next section one solution seams to be the installation of AppleвЂ™s legacy version 6 of Java and a newer version (e.g. OS X seams to be looking for a legacy version 6 of AppleвЂ™s own build of Java. But it appears that OS X has problems recognizing newer versions OracleвЂ™s Java. Both effects are pretty annoying! See the screen shot below on how that might look like.ДЄfter searching the web, the details of the problem are still not clear to me.

#DOWNLAD RJAVA IN R MAC FOR MAC#

Unfortunately, the package rJava does not just fail to load, but the R GUI for Mac terminates instantly and in RStudio the R-session gets closed. In what follows, I listed the steps that solved for me the problem that the package rJava could not be loaded from within RStudio under Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.2). Furthermore, some new security features in Mac OS X prevent that environment path settings are passed along to applications like RStudio.

From what I understood, eventually, it is not a problem of rJava or R or RStudio in the first place, but newer versions of Mac OS X do not play well with the latest versions of OracleвЂ™s Java (jdk). Since I upgraded my Mac to OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.2) I am having problems with the R-package rJava. Problem With rJava On Mac OS X El Capitan

Downlad rjava in r mac