Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411081323420.3330-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-11-08T13:36:01Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0
In-Reply-To: <28AD4F9DFF3DD649B26B3027C78FB6732D74A4@icex1.ic.ac.uk>
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The versions on CRAN/src/contrib/Omegahat are way out of date.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/
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