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Question on external program interface.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:26 am
by Liu
Hi all.

I am very happy to know that Eviews7 can connect to R and use it externally. However, I met some problems using this function.


I installed R. 2.12.1 on my computer and there is a shortcut icon on the desktop. When I use xopen command to launch R,
it first told me that statConnectorSrv.StatConnector cannot be connected. Then I tried to change ProgID intending to solve this problem.
However, eviews7 still has trouble open the GUI based interface of R on my computer?

Any solutions?

Re: Question on external program interface.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:04 am
by EViews Steve
Hi Liu:

You need to install a few more components before EViews 7 can talk to R. If you refer to page 155 of our "EViews 7 Command Reference" pdf, you will see the list of items that need to be installed.

Basically, the R COM interface (which is called StatConnector) is not automatically installed with R. You must install this separately...

Steve

Re: Question on external program interface.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:39 am
by Liu
Thanks Steve. I know what to do now! I didn't find this important point in the hard copy. will
check the pdf in the future instead.

Re: Question on external program interface.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:45 am
by EViews Gareth
It is in the hard copy too (page 155) :D

Re: Question on external program interface.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:14 am
by Liu
Yes I find it as well now. Thanks again! Very excited that I can use R together with eviews.