Regarding David's point, it depends on how much admin access is required by
the COM API itself. If the API requires you to be an admin then there's not
much that RDCOMClient can do about that (other than handle the situation
more gracefully than crashing - maybe it's possible to check for admin
rights first).

This thread:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/142255.html
would seem to suggest that rcom *might* not have the same issue.

Obviously for both adoption and security reasons it's best for
RBloomberg/RDCOMClient to require the minimum possible level of access. I'll
try and take a look at this issue from RBloomberg's perspective and see if
there's something that can be done.

If anyone has any advice/experience that might be relevant I'd be very happy
to hear it, either in this thread or offline.



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> Given that most problems with security under Windows come from running as
> admin and that most security experts suggest that you don't then surely
> fixing the problem with the code is the right solution; not getting "enough"
> admin rights to make it work.
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