Gdata package perl issue

Question

I am attempting to follow this easy 2-minute video tutorial on importing an Excel spreadsheet into R as a data frame: http://www.screenr.com/QiN8

I followed each step, i

Answer 1

The problem went away after I ran the following script and restarted the PC:

library(gdata)
installXLSXsupport(perl = 'C:\\strawberry\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe')