Every time I have to handle something that somehow just brushes past Java, I have a bad time. This time it was getting Matthew Jockers syuzhet R package up and running on my machine with a clean install of Mac OS 10.11 on it. The craziness is still with me, witness this:

Which Java? El Capitan is conflicted.

But after many, many attempts to install.packages("syuzhet") being met withinstallation of package ‘syuzhet’ had non-zero exit statusand the same forrJava`, it appears the following may have worked:

install.packages("rJava", type="mac.binary")