# Load XLConnect library
library(XLConnect)
## Warning: package 'XLConnect' was built under R version 3.0.2
## XLConnect 0.2-7 by Mirai Solutions GmbH
## http://www.mirai-solutions.com ,
## http://miraisolutions.wordpress.com

# Get system and session info
sessionInfo()
## R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
## Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
## 
## locale:
## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
## [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
## [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
## [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils    
## [8] methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
## [1] XLConnect_0.2-7 knitr_1.5       svSocket_0.9-55 TinnR_1.0-5    
## [5] R2HTML_2.2.1    Hmisc_3.10-1.1  survival_2.37-4
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] cluster_1.14.4  evaluate_0.5.1  formatR_0.9     grid_3.0.1     
## [5] lattice_0.20-15 rJava_0.9-4     stringr_0.6.2   svMisc_0.9-69  
## [9] tools_3.0.1

# Review XLConnect help pages
`?`(XLConnect)
## starting httpd help server ... done

# Run example code from help pages
wb <- loadWorkbook("XLConnect.xlsx", create = TRUE)
## Error: NoSuchMethodError (Java):
## org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlOptions.setSaveAggressiveNamespaces()Lorg/apache/xmlbeans/XmlOptions;