Yes, I did, and no error message. And comRegisterRegistry() returns NULL, not 
sure if that matters

John





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From: Jonathan P Daily <jdaily@usgs.gov>

Cc: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>; r-help-bounces@r-project.org
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 11:39:12 AM
Subject: Re: [R] RExcel

It is asking the obvious, but did you run the commands from the rcom 
package after installation (see inline ***s)?
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r-help-bounces@r-project.org wrote on 04/11/2011 02:08:02 PM:

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> [R] RExcel
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> to:
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> r-help
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> 04/11/2011 02:12 PM
> 
> Sent by:
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> r-help-bounces@r-project.org
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> Hi, I am installing Excel using package "RExcelInstaller". When I 
> tried to run 
> 
> installRExcel()
> 
> I got this error message:
> 
> You don not have the R package rcom installed.
> The (D)COM server installed which will aloow you to use the 
> background server in 
> RExcel.
> Since rcom is not installed, foreground mode will be unavailable.
> 
> You may continue with the installation, but in most circumstances 
> you probably 
> should cancel current installation, install the package rcom properly 
(do not 
> forget to run the commands
************************************
>   library(rcom)
>   comRegisterRegistry()
************************************
> immediately after installation)
> and after that run this installer once again
> 
> 
> But rcom package was installed without any problem, somehow the 
> installer keeps 
> saying that rcom is not installed.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> 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 
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] RExcelInstaller_3.1-13 rcom_2.2-3.1           rscproxy_1.3-1 
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.12.2
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