Message-ID: <418F73EA.6090203@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2004-11-08T13:26:02Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0
In-Reply-To: <28AD4F9DFF3DD649B26B3027C78FB6732D74A4@icex1.ic.ac.uk>
Lindveld, Charles wrote:
> I am trying to use the Windows COM interface under R 2.0, and have
> encountered the following difficulties:
> - the package RDCOMClient installs, loads and works under R 1.9.1,
> installs under R2.0, but does not load or work under R2.0
> - the package SWinTypeLibs does not install or load under either R
> 1.9.1 or under R2.0
>
> For the moment I am concentrating on the RDCOMClient package as it seems
> to be the most up-to-date one.
> My questions are:
> - has anybody else had this problem (and found a solution)
> - is this something that I should be able to easily fix myself (on my
> local installation), or do I have to wait for the maintainer of the
> package to fix it?
> - if it is something so complicated that only the maintainer can do it,
> is it usual to ask the maintainer if he can do that?
>
> Same questions for the SWinTypeLibs package. The maintainers of
> SWinTypeLibs and RDCOMClient are the same person.
You need the package's binary to be build under R-2.0.x.
You can try to compile from sources yourself.
Or you look at the more or less hidden archive of R-2.0.0 binary
packages for Windows from Omegahat (Duncan TL told me in a private mail
about it):
http://www.omegahat.org/download/R/packages/Windows/R-2.0.0/
Uwe Ligges
>
> Charles Lindveld
>
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