Installation error with RDCOMClient in RSTUDIO

Question

I´m trying to install the RDCOMClient package in rstudio in order to use the R2PPT package to create power point presentations.

I search and the instruction to insta

Answer 1

A little late to the game, but have you tried running just: install.packages("RDCOMClient") It lives on CRAN in both 32 and 64 bit versions but isn't documented...

Answer 2

You can install it from github

https://github.com/omegahat/RDCOMClient

library("devtools")
install_github('omegahat/RDCOMClient')

should work.

Answer 3

I also could install it from CRAN with R 3.4 but with a computer stuck with R 3.3.1 I had error:

package ‘RDCOMClient’ is not available (for R version 3.3.1)

It's undocumented on CRAN so I tried OmegaHat and got

package ‘RDCOMClient’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it

Then I followed @g-grothendieck 's link in this post this post's comments and found a version I could install manually :

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/

You can find every version there.

Answer 4

To those struggling to install RDCOMClient with the warning:

package ‘RDCOMClient’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

Remember to explicitly set the repo to load from the omegahat source (as opposed to the default CRAN location):

install.packages("RDCOMClient", repos = "http://www.omegahat.net/R")

Note the OP used the old website as repo source.