We found out about this problem only a few days ago. The reason is that the official binary packages were compiled with 2.8.1, but the distributed Windows binary of R was still 2.8.0. rscproxy needs to be compiled for the correct version of R. Now with R 2.8.1 being release officially the problem should disappear, but we (which is mostly Thomas Baier, the mastermind behind rcom and R(D)COM server) will try to find a way to avoid this problem with the next R update.
Before R 2.8.0, rproxy.dll distributed with R itself was supplying the underlying mechanism for the rcom package and R(D)COM server. rproxy.dll was removed from R itself, and rscproxy is the current substitute. rproxy.dll, being part of R itself, always matched the R version to the very last digit. With rscproxy, it is more difficult to stay in sync. meerman wrote: > After installing the package 'rscproxy' downloaded from the CRAN server, I > get the following error message from R 2.8.0 about a version conflict : > > > > > > package 'rscproxy' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > > > The downloaded packages are in > > C:\Documents and Settings\John Meerman\Local > > Settings\Temp\RtmpbK9mxN\downloaded_packages > > updating HTML package descriptions > >> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE))) > > + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)}) > > *Warning message: > > package 'rscproxy' was built under R version 2.8.1 *> > > > > This prevents me e.g. to use the R (D)COM 3.0 server. > > > > > > > > > > John Meerman > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1854 - Release Date: 12/17/2008 > 7:21 PM > -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel