R 4.3.2版本安装后无法部署RDCOMClient包的求助

问题背景 #

安装R 4.3.2版本后，执行以下命令安装RDCOMClient失败：

install.packages("RDCOMClient")

报错信息：

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘RDCOMClient’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

已尝试的安装方法（均失败） #

1. 指定omegahat源安装二进制包 #

执行命令：

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

报错：

Warning in install.packages :
  unable to access index for repository http://www.omegahat.net/R/bin/windows/contrib/4.3:
  cannot open URL 'http://www.omegahat.net/R/bin/windows/contrib/4.3/PACKAGES'

   package ‘RDCOMClient’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘RDCOMClient’ is not available as a binary package for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

2. 从GitHub源码安装 #

执行命令：

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

报错（核心错误为CreateProcess执行make命令失败，且提示UNC路径不支持）：

Downloading GitHub repo omegahat/RDCOMClient@HEAD
── R CMD build ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
✔  checking for file 'C:\Users\cfg010\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWeVLP3\remotes5bec30bc74ad\omegahat-RDCOMClient-c8f708a/DESCRIPTION'
─  preparing 'RDCOMClient':
✔  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─  cleaning src
   Warning in system2(command, args, stdout = NULL, stderr = NULL, ...) :
     'CreateProcess' failed to run 'C:\rtools43\usr\bin\make.exe -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-43~1.2/share/make/clean.mk" -f Makevars.win clean'
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
─  building 'RDCOMClient_0.96-1.tar.gz'
   
'\\lvnuser.ad.lvn.se\cfg010$\Mina Dokument\R'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
* installing *source* package 'RDCOMClient' ...
** using staged installation
** libs
Error in system(paste(MAKE, p1(paste("-f", shQuote(makefiles))), "compilers"),  : 
  'CreateProcess' failed to run 'C:\rtools43\usr\bin\make.exe -f "Makevars.win" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-43~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-43~1.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" compilers'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-4.3.2/library/RDCOMClient'
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/cfg010/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpWeVLP3/file5bec77bf3e83/RDCOMClient_0.96-1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

3. 验证Rtools环境并使用临时库路径安装 #

确认devtools::find_rtools()和devtools::find_rtools(4.3)均返回TRUE，Rtools环境正常。执行临时库路径安装：

tf <- tempfile()
dir.create(tf)
withr::with_libpaths(new=tf,devtools::install_github("omegahat/RDCOMClient"))

仍报错，错误信息与GitHub源码安装一致。

问题解答 #

1. 是否可以向开发者请求更新？ #

可以。RDCOMClient的源码托管在GitHub的omegahat仓库，你可以在仓库的Issues页面提交需求，说明你使用的R版本（4.3.2）以及安装失败的情况，请求开发者适配新版本R并提供对应二进制包或修复源码编译问题。

2. 是否有其他安装源？ #

目前RDCOMClient的主要维护源就是CRAN和omegahat的GitHub仓库，除此之外没有官方维护的其他安装源。部分第三方镜像可能同步CRAN的包，但由于CRAN上没有适配R 4.3.2的版本，镜像也无法提供有效支持。

3. 最后方案：替代包 #

如果无法安装RDCOMClient，可以考虑以下替代方案：

• comtasks：同样用于R与COM对象交互，部分功能与RDCOMClient重叠，可尝试安装使用。
• 使用PowerShell脚本替代：若你的需求是通过R操作Windows应用（如Excel、Outlook），可以调用PowerShell脚本实现，无需依赖COM包。
• openxlsx/readxl：如果仅需操作Excel文件，这类纯R实现的包无需COM支持，功能足够覆盖大部分日常需求。

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者Christian