Dear John,
I found the following possible reason. I don't use the latest version,
but in a similar manner you can find the reason.
Rexcel defines a few form, which you can inspect through the VBA editor.
One of these forms is
the serverform. On this form the setserverfromregistry subroutine sets
the enabled field of the bottons of the form. For the backgroundbutton,
the one which is grayed, the LocalBackgroundServerAvailable()
function is used. It is defined in the Registry module, and as you can
expect it reads a registry entry.
So one possible reason is that the rcom server is not registered in the
registry. You can do that by starting the R console, loading the rcom
package, and issuing the comRegisterRegistry() command in the R console
window. To do that you need the appropriate right.
I hope this will help.
Best wishes
Vilmos
John Logsdon írta:
I posted this a month ago now. Does anyone have an idea why R won't run in
background?
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [Rcom-l] Offline installation
Date: Friday 19 Sep 2008
From: John Logsdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: rcom-l@mailman.csd.univie.ac.at
I had to install RExcel etc on an offline box - for company reasons they want
it completely isolated! The version is the latest RExcel 3.0-1, rcom 1.5-2.2
RSrv250 (although I don't really need this) on R 2.7.2 and Excel 2003 on XP
Home.
After getting all the bits and pieces, it did install OK by trial and error
except I can't make it work with R in background - this option is greyed out.
Is there a trick - one of the many macros that can be called - that can enable
this?
Best wishes
John
John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"
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