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On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Matthew Dowle wrote:
>
> Dear R-help,
>
> Call RInterface.StartRServer ' Works fine
> Call RInterface.RRun("objects()") ' Works fine
> Call Rinterface.RRun( other R commands which do not generate errors, the
> demos etc ) ' Works fine
> But ...
> Call RInterface.RRun("doesnotexist") ' Sends Excel into
endless loop it
> appears
>
> After about 90 seconds a dialog box appears "Microsoft Excel is
waiting for
> another application to complete an OLE action". Click OK then it
hangs for
> another minute or so, and displays the dialogue again. Task manager is
> required to kill Excel. I rebooted to ensure only Excel is running, so
> there should be no conflicts with any other app, but the same error is
> repeatable. In this case I was expecting the R error "Object
"doesnotexist"
> not found" be passed back into Excel, either as a dialogue box in
Excel, or
> available to VBA using a GetRError function or something?
>
> I hope someone can help, or point me in the right direction.
>
> Info from "About RExcel" :
>
> RExcel version 1.35
> RDCOM server 1.35
> R system software: Version 2.0.0
> Microsoft Excel 10.0
> Windows NT 5.01
>
> > version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status beta
> major 2
> minor 0.0
> year 2004
> month 09
> day 28
> language R
> >
>
> Many thanks,
> Matthew
>
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