Installation error with RDCOMClient in RSTUDIO

Question

I´m trying to install the RDCOMClient package in rstudio in order to use the R2PPT package to create power point presentations.

I search and the instruction to install RDCOMClient package is:

install.packages("RDCOMClient", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")

The problem is that the reposotory webpage is not available anymore.

does anyone know how to install the RDCOMClient or use R2PPT without RDCOMClient package?

Answer 1

You can install it from github

https://github.com/omegahat/RDCOMClient

library("devtools")
install_github('omegahat/RDCOMClient')

should work.

Answer 2

To those struggling to install RDCOMClient with the warning:

package ‘RDCOMClient’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

Remember to explicitly set the repo to load from the omegahat source (as opposed to the default CRAN location):

install.packages("RDCOMClient", repos = "http://www.omegahat.net/R")

Note the OP used the old website as repo source.