[R] problem installing RDCOMClient on Windows 7

[Uwe Ligges]

Please try with a recent version of R. Yours is 6 major updates behind....

Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 05.08.2013 16:11, Kishor Tappita wrote:
> Dear R-Users,
>
> I am trying to install RDCOMClient package as it is a dependency for
> installing excel.link package. I get the below error while trying to
> install RDCOMClient on 64-bit Windows 7 operating system.
>
>
> g++ -I"D:/R-2.10.0/include" -D_GNU_ -DNO_PYCOM_IPROVIDECLASSINFO -I.
>   -Wno-deprecated    -O2 -Wall  -c RUtils.c -o RUtils.o
>
> RUtils.c: In function 'SEXPREC* R_createRCOMUnknownObject(void*, const char*)':
> RUtils.c:151:52: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean'
> [-fpermissive]
> D:/R-2.10.0/include/Rinternals.h:692:6: error:   initializing argument
> 3 of 'void R_RegisterCFinalizerEx(SEXP, R_CFinalizer_t, Rboolean)'
> [-fpermissive]
> RUtils.c: In function 'Rboolean ISSInstanceOf(SEXP, const char*)':
> RUtils.c:245:26: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean'
> [-fpermissive]
>
> make: *** [RUtils.o] Error 1
>
> Please help me to resolve this issue. RDCOMClient_0.93-0.tar.gz is the
> source file that I am using. Below is my session information.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks,
> Kishor
>
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