Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, 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.
Both are products of the Omegahat project, not of R. As that project's mailing lists appear to be down, I suggest you contact DTL directly. The versions on CRAN/src/contrib/Omegahat are way out of date. There are Windows binaries for R 2.0.0 on www.omegahat.org. I suspect you have the wrong versions, but it is not clear which you are using, including whether you are building from source or installing a binary. For SWinTypeLibs there are two binary versions there, 0.2-1 and 0.4-0, and I was unable to find sources for the former. I have succeeded in building RDCOMClient_0.8-1 from the sources on R 2.0.0, and it does appear to work. (I did have to make some changes, at least to the Makefiles.) My build is available from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/2.0.0.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595