Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > Typo in the Setup Warning for RAndFriendsLight, RExcel > > and update all your Excel version to their latest service releases. > should be > and update all your Excel versions to their latest service releases. >
corrected > GGobi is not included as a checkbox option in R-2.8.0. Since it is > included on the opening Setup window, one of those needs to be > changed. corrected > > I am working on my desktop with Excel 2002. > > The RExcel installation is taking much longer than is justified. > I think it has been running about 10 minutes with all the green bars > filled in and with the Cancel button grayed out. > After another 10 minutes, I attempted to kill the "Setup - RExcel" window. > Not possible from the RED X. So I killed RExcelInst3.0.5.tmp from the > Task Manager. It's CPU time has not moved since I started looking at it. > I cannot do anything about that. > The installation continued with RAndExcelWorkbooks. This installer opened > a message box that says >> R and Excel book files can not be installed while Excel is running. >> Please close all insrtances of Excel before continuing with the installation. >> >> Click Cancel to completely abort installing RExcel. > > ---shouldn't it say > Click Cancel to completely abort installing RAndExcel. > ? This is coming from RExcelInstaller At that time, R is installed already. It will also happen if you use RExcelInstaller on an existing R installation. > > At this point I found Excel running. It shows the message: > No RETURN() or HALT() function found on macro sheet. > I clicked OK. > > The I clicked ok on the R and Excel.... message and the message came back. > So I attempted to close Excel. I clicked on Excel on the task bar. > The message: > RExcel is configured now for Excel XP (2002) > Then the Excel Recovery Pane message came up. I told it to remove files. > Excel is now closed. This uis a local Excel problem. I cannot do anything here. > > I clicked again on the "R and Excel book files can not ..." message. > The RAndExcel installation completed and the RAndFriendsLight installation > completed. > > > > The RExcel with RCommander icon opens R-2.8.0. > The book worksheets all work. > > > The previous installers popped a message about a bug in RETURN and HALT. > This one did not pop a message. Instead it froze on detecting that the > function > wasn't there. I never tested with 2002. So I need to make this warning active for 2002 also. > _______________________________________________ > Rcom-l mailing list > Rcom-l@mailman.csd.univie.ac.at > http://mailman.csd.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l > More information (including a Wiki) at http://rcom.univie.ac.at > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.3/1748 - Release Date: 10/26/2008 > 7:53 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 _______________________________________________ Rcom-l mailing list Rcom-l@mailman.csd.univie.ac.at http://mailman.csd.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/rcom-l More information (including a Wiki) at http://rcom.univie.ac.at
