R help - Nov 2004 - Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0

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. 
 
 
Charles Lindveld
 

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Lindveld, Charles <k.lindveld <at> imperial.ac.uk> writes:

: 
: 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. 

rcom 1.0-1 has been tested on R 2.0.0. I have used it successfully
on R 2.0.1 beta with no problems. Its at:

   http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom/download/rcom_1.0-1.zip

You also might want to review recent rcom archives at:

   http://mailman.csd.univie.ac.at/pipermail/rcom-l/

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


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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.

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