COMCreate {RDCOMClient} | R Documentation |
This is used to create a COM object in R.
COMCreate(name, ...)
name |
the name identifying the type of COM object. This is usually the name of the class, such as Excel.Application. In the future, this may support finding class IDs separately and passing them as this argument |
... |
currently ignored. In the future, we will have arguments controlling how the server is created, e.g. the location of the machine, etc. |
This resolves the class ID given the name and
then creates the instance using CoCreateInstance
.
The class ID is found using CLSIDFromString
and if that fails using CLSIDFromProgID
.
An object of class COMIDispatch
.
Duncan Temple Lang (duncan@research.bell-labs.com)
http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMServer http://www.omegahat.org/SWinTypeLibs http://www.omegahat.org/SWinRegistry
The $
and [[
operators
for the COMIDispatch
class - COMAccessors