Dear Vilmos,
thanks for your mails and the very good analyses of the problem(s).
I've prepared a version of rscproxy including fixes for both problems.
The new version of rscproxy should be available from CRAN soon.
The following code (slightly changed your code) now works:
XL<-comGetObjec
Dear Thomas,
I think I finally catched the bug. In the bdx_com.c file in the
BDXScalar2Variant function the BDX_HANDLE case was handled in the
following way:
case BDX_HANDLE:
{
LPSTREAM lStream = pBDXData->data.raw_data[0].ptr;
void* lTmpPtr = (void*) V_DISPATCH(pVariantD
Dear Thomas,
I switched to R-2.8.0, and I had to realize as others also reported in
this mailing list, that under R-2.8.0 the rcom package does not work
properly. My concrete problem was that the following code (a similar to
that one) caused a crash of R.
XL<-comGetObject("excel.application
