
Hi , 

What I did was similar, install R, R(D)COM server an RExcelInstaller package. Then just write > installRExcel() in the console. And it works. 
Something you should know is that there is a specific mailing list for RCOM topic in here:

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

Regards

patricia.


> To: r-help@r-project.org
> From: shitao.xu@db.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:03:05 +0000
> Subject: [R] need help with installRExcel()
> 
> Struggled a whole day, but still could not get DCOM working on my machine. 
> 
> What I did is:
> 
> 1. Installed R 2.8.1 under folder "../R/R-2.8.1"
> 2. Installed R_Scilab_DCOM3.0-1B5 under folder ".. \R\(D)COM Server"
> 3. Installed packages: rscproxy_1.0-12, RExcelInstaller_3.0-10, 
> rcom_2.0-4...
> 4. run the following commands: 
>         library(rscproxy)
>         library(rcom)
>         comRegisterRegistry()
>         library(RExcelInstaller)
>         installRExcel()
> 
> Problems: 
> 1) Got error message when I run "installRExcel()", which was 
> "The download site http://rcom.univie.ac.at seems to be currently 
> unreachable". 
> However, I can visit that website from IE-explorer directly. 
> 
> 2) If I run the basic test from (D)Com Sever, I got Runtime Error which 
> read "Program: ..\R\(D)COM~1\bin\STATCO~1.EXE abornal program 
> termination",  and "Run-time error 462, the remote server machine does not 
> exist or is unavailable". Also, the DebugView generated the following 
> report:
> 
> 00000000        0.00000000      [2416] ::Init() 
> 00000001        0.00032801      [2416] connector:      R 
> 00000002        0.00036630      [2416] DLL:            rscproxy.dll 
> 00000003        0.00040314      [2416] environment:    R_HOME 
> 00000004        0.00043921      [2416] registry key:   Software\R-core\R 
> 00000005        0.00047554      [2416] registry value: InstallPath 
> 00000006        0.00051146      [2416] version key: 
> 00000007        0.00054723      [2416] version value: 
> 00000008        0.00058359      [2416] binary dir:     bin 
> 00000009        0.00062370      [2416] connector:      Rold 
> 00000010        0.00066010      [2416] DLL:            rproxy.dll 
> 00000011        0.00069640      [2416] environment:    R_HOME 
> 00000012        0.00073309      [2416] registry key:   Software\R-core\R 
> 00000013        0.00076879      [2416] registry value: InstallPath 
> 00000014        0.00080503      [2416] version key: 
> 00000015        0.00084128      [2416] version value: 
> 00000016        0.00087704      [2416] binary dir:     bin 
> 00000017        0.00091685      [2416] connector:      SciLab 
> 00000018        0.00095268      [2416] DLL:            sciproxy.dll 
> 00000019        0.00098887      [2416] environment:    SCILAB_HOME 
> 00000020        0.00102560      [2416] registry key:   Software\Scilab\%s 
> 00000021        0.00106183      [2416] registry value: SCIPATH 
> 00000022        0.00109763      [2416] version key:    Software\Scilab 
> 00000023        0.00113390      [2416] version value:  LASTINSTALL 
> 00000024        0.00116993      [2416] binary dir:     bin 
> 00000025        0.00124627      [2416] sc_proxy_find_connector: 00860FD0/R 
> (current R) 
> 00000026        0.00128378      [2416] sc_proxy_find_connector: found "R 
> 00000027        0.00133204      [2416] looking up registry key at 
> "HKCU\Software\R-core\R\InstallPath" 
> 00000028        0.00139897      [2416] looking up registry key at 
> "HKLM\Software\R-core\R\InstallPath" 
> 00000029        0.00154388      [2416] 
> SetEnvironmentVariable("R_HOME","C:\Documents and 
> Settings\xushita\R\R-2.8.1") 
> 00000030        0.00161946      [2416] 
> SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH","C:\progra~1\oracle\product\10.2.0\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\blp\API\dde\;C:\Program Files\blp\API\;C:\Program 
> Files\TimeScape\Program;C:\Program 
> Files\Reuters\Common\Login;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\OLEDB\;C:\Program Files\sybase\odbc;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\ocs-12_5\dll;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\OCS-12_5\lib3p;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\ocs-12_5\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\oracle\product\9.2.0.1\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\oracle\product\9.2.0.1\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\oracle\product\9.2.0.1\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\GED_Technology\Excel\RiskServer;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\ado.net\dll;C:\Program Files\sybase\oledb;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\odbc;C:\Program Files\sybase\ocs-12_5\dll;C:\Program 
> Files\sybase\ocs-12_5\bin;C:\Program Files\Xenomorph\Xenomorph 
> System\Utilities\;C:\Program Files\Xenomorph\Xenomorph 
> System\Program\;C:\Program Files\notes;C:\Program 
> Files\oracle\product\9.2.0.1\jre\1.1.8\bin;c:\Documents and Settings\All 
> Users\GED_Technology\Excel\RiskServer;C:\program files\notes\;C:\Program 
> Files\blp\API\dde;C:\Program 
> Files\blp\API;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\ADO.NET\dll;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\DataAccess\ODBC\dll;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\OCS-12_5\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\OCS-12_5\lib3p;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\OCS-12_5\dll;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\DataAccess\OLEDB\dll;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\OLEDB;C:\PROGRA~1\Sybase\ODBC;C:\Program 
> Files\MATLAB\R2008a\bin;H:\matlab\bin;H:\matlab\bin\win32;C:\Program 
> Files\MATLAB\R2008a\bin\win32;C:\Program 
> Files\oracle\product\9.2.0.1\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\Documents and 
> Settings\xushita\R\R-2.8.1\bin") 
> 
> I appreciate any help!
> 
> 
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