How can I access Windows COM objects in R v3?

Question

Some time ago, you used to be able to install the rcom package in R to use COM scripting (eg, access to external programs.) Unfortunately, it seems to be discontinued:

Answer 1

New versions of rcom and rscproxy (also for current versions of R) are available from a different repository. Just use http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download as the R repository to install from and you can download and install binary versions of statconn packages from there.

Hope this helps!