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I just did some testing with the latest version of statconnDCOM and wrote some new instructions on how to get it setup correctly. If you have time, take a quick look and see if it matches your own installation experience.

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Steve

The software setup required for EViews to talk to R successfully has undergone a few changes since we released our original documentation way back when for EViews 7, so I thought I would try and update this documentation with new tips. A version of the following should appear in the new EViews 9 doc...

Hi Charlie: Thanks for your encouragement and your suggestions! Yes, we need to update our instructions on how to get R COM Automation up and working, but honestly this changes so often it's hard to keep up-to-date on this. I'll see about writing some new instructions into the next patch or so. I'm ...

Ok, the feature I discussed above has been added to EViews 9 beta in today's patch. viewtopic.php?f=29&t=11641

If we have more time, I'll look into the right-click context menu option...

Steve

We might be able to do something about this in the upcoming release of EViews 9. Not making any promises, but conceptually, we're thinking of creating a new global option checkbox (under Windows Behavior) that says "Run programs automatically". This would be checked by default (as per our ...

Altaus:

You need to double-up the quotes inside the string. This includes the quotes around the range argument:


Steve

Are you running on Windows 8?

No problem.

Yeah I should've mentioned that. 64-bit EViews will require 64-bit ODBC, while 32-bit EViews will require 32-bit ODBC. For some reason, even though the ODBC drivers are technically COM objects, you can't use them cross-bit.

If you save the DSN as a File DSN, you can edit the DSN file (just a simple text file) to store the username and password. This way it's not so easily visible in any command you publish. Here's how to do that: http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2300&p=7745 You could also put it int...

Another related post regarding MySQL directly:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5025&p=17568&hilit=mysql#p17568

EViews can read from and write to MySQL using their ODBC driver. You'll have to install the MySQL ODBC driver: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/ Then create an ODBC DSN on your machine: http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29&p=132&hilit=mysql#p132 Then to read in da...

GetSeries returns a 1-dimensional array. I believe Excel Range objects expect a 2-dimensional array. I would suggest you read our COM Automation documentation located here: http://www.eviews.com/download/whitepapers/EViews_COM_Automation.pdf And pay particular attention to the GetGroup method that r...

We currently have no plans to sign the add-in with a Trusted Publisher's certificate. The add-in is simply a nicer front-end to using our OLEDB provider. All the code for the add-in (at least the original version) can be found by opening the "EViews Add In.xla" located in your EViews folde...

What version of EViews are you using?

For others looking to use this command, you can now use it in EViews like this:

COMTIMEOUT(seconds to wait)

Set seconds to zero (0) if you never want it to timeout.

Steve