Re: [Rcpp-devel] RCOM

2013-06-18 Thread John Buonagurio
On 18 June 2013 at 11:08, David Silkworth wrote: > In reply to initial issue by Umesh Chitre regarding roll of RCOM. > > I use RCOM to connect my R gui to Excel on Windows for development > purposes (I know this makes Dirk laugh). Trying to compile C++ using > other than gcc would not work, so

Re: [Rcpp-devel] RCOM

2013-06-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Another possibility, if you must use a Windows client program built with their toolchain [ which has the well-known issues of one not being able to link to C++ code built with the gcc/g++ toolchain as you cannot mix C++ object code from two different compilers] is to _not link_ --- but go over the

[Rcpp-devel] RCOM

2013-06-18 Thread Silkworth,David J.
In reply to initial issue by Umesh Chitre regarding roll of RCOM. I use RCOM to connect my R gui to Excel on Windows for development purposes (I know this makes Dirk laugh). Trying to compile C++ using other than gcc would not work, so there would be no point in attempting to code in MSVC++ for