Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Thanks for that information; I sure hope this cures the troubles.
> Question: Off-topic, but intimately related...
>
> Rprofile.site, in the R 2.8.0 etc directory, includes the lines:
>
> library(utils)
> if (.Platform$GUI %in% c("Rgui","Rterm")){
> if(!("rcom" %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])){
> install.packages("rcom", dep = T);
> require(rcom);
> dummy<-comRegisterRegistry()} else {
> require(rcom)}}
>
> I'm not sure whether they were already there in the version of
> Rprofile.site that came with the 2.8.0 distribution or whether I put
> them there because I had them there in for an earlier version of R.
These lines are put there by the RExcelInstaller.
>
> But obviously they block doing package update of rcom, and hence of
> rscroxy, from within Rgui, since these packages are already loaded when
> the R command line becomes available within Rgui.
>
> Is it OK to comment out those lines temporarily from Rprofile.site in
> order do the package update?
Starting R with the command line
RGui --vanilla
starts R without reading Rprofile.site,
then you can safely update everything.
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