[R] Help on installing "R" packages in a Citrix

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 22, 2014, at 9:13 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

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> On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Chirag Patel wrote:
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>> Hi David
>> 
>> I have installed R Version 2.15.1 on the image but having problems install rcom and rscproxy.
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> Those are commercial packages and not maintained or supported by R-Core

I need to clarify that statement:

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/erich.neuwirth/php/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:how_to_install

rcom is placed on CRAN but authored by the people who distribute RExcel, so technically it's not a commercial product itself but it is made available to support a commercial product. You will notice in its requirements statconnDCOM:

And it's wiki says rcom does not comply with CRAN open source requirements anymore:

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/erich.neuwirth/php/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=start

-- 
David.

> 
> (That is also a rather old version of R and would have gotten the advice to update before further comments were offered if the above sentence were not applicable.)
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> Since the error message says the packages are nota available for R 2.15.1 I would go to the author's website and see what versions those packages are available for. Standard message to users: read the error messages for meaning.
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> -- 
> David.
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>> I'm following this guide:
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>> http://homepage.univie.ac.at/erich.neuwirth/php/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:how_to_install#installation_of_r_r_d_com_server_and_rexcel
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>> Download the statconn DCOM server and execute the program you downloaded
>> Start R as administrator (on Windows 7 you need to right-click the R icon and click the corresponding item)
>> In R, run the following commands (you must start R as administrator to do this)
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>> install.packages(c("rscproxy","rcom"),repos="http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download",lib=.Library)
>> library(rcom)
>> comRegisterRegistry()
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>> i get the following message:
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>> <image001.png>
>> Please can you help me?
>> 
>> Many Thanks
>> 
>> Chirag Patel
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net] 
>> Sent: 22 August 2014 09:29
>> To: Jon-Paul Cameron
>> Cc: 'r-help at R-project.org'; Scott Waters; #BST - Citrix Support
>> Subject: Re: [R] Help on installing "R" packages in a Citrix
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:36 AM, Jon-Paul Cameron wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> We are currently trying to migrate 3 users of "R" to a citrix based environment,
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>> Windows?, Linux? "Citrix" isn't usually thought of as an OS is it?
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>>> but are coming across major issues trying to install the packages to the relevant image. Can someone please contact me around how the install should be done - as we can find no supporting documentation or help on this matter.
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>> http://cran.us.r-project.org/manuals.html
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>>> 
>>> I already sent this request to "R-packages" for help, but was told this was the correct Forum for info of this type.
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>> Have you installed R? Which OS? Which version?
>> 
>> --
>> David Winsemius
>> Alameda, CA, USA
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