Installed package xlsx doesn't work in R

Question

I've been trying to install the package "xlsx" in R. First time that I tried to do so, R gave me the error:

package ‘xlsx’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘xlsx’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.1.3)

After that, I tried to install the package using the command install.packages("xlsx",type="source"). Then it seemed like the package had been installed successfully:

 * installing *source* package 'xlsx' ...
    ** package 'xlsx' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
    ** R
    ** inst
    ** preparing package for lazy loading
    ** help
    *** installing help indices
    ** building package indices
    ** installing vignettes
    ** testing if installed package can be loaded
    *** arch - i386
    *** arch - x64
    * DONE (xlsx)

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘C:\Users\zahra\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpszYeze\downloaded_packages’

But still when I try to execute read.xlsx command, R gives me the error:

Error: could not find function "read.xlsx"

I'd really appreciate it if someone tells me what am I doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Did you do the `library(xlsx)` command before using the `read.xlsx` function? — John Paul, May 07 '15 at 16:00
there is a new library, readxl, which has no external dependencies. — Henk, May 07 '15 at 16:29
Sounds like you're missing Step 3 of the accepted answer in my suggested dupe: load the package with `library()` or `require()`. — Gregor Thomas, May 07 '15 at 16:40
This package uses Java. Do you have any trouble with `require(rJava)`? — Hack-R, May 07 '15 at 17:33

Installed package xlsx doesn't work in R

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