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Published inApr 2024
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ISBN-139781804610695
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Steven Sanderson
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Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun

David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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Installing and explaining the RDCOMClient R library

RDCOMClient is an R package that provides a bridge between R and Microsoft’s component object model (COM) architecture, enabling users to interact with COM objects from within R. With RDCOMClient, users can harness the power of COM-based applications, such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, to automate tasks, manipulate data, and integrate R with other software systems.

Before diving into RDCOMClient, it’s important to grasp the concept of COM objects. COM is a binary interface standard that allows different software components to interact and share functionality across various programming languages and platforms. In the context of RDCOMClient, COM objects refer to the application-specific objects exposed by COM-based applications that can be accessed and manipulated programmatically.

RDCOMClient provides a set of functions and methods to interact with COM objects, making it easier to automate tasks...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804610695

Authors (2)

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Steven Sanderson

Steven Sanderson, MPH, is an applications manager for the patient accounts department at Stony Brook Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's in public health from Stony Brook University. He has worked in healthcare in some capacity for just shy of 20 years. He is the author and maintainer of the healthyverse set of R packages. He likes to read material related to social and labor economics and has recently turned his efforts back to his guitar with the hope that his kids will follow suit as a hobby they can enjoy together.
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David Kun

David Kun is a mathematician and actuary who has always worked in the gray zone between quantitative teams and ICT, aiming to build a bridge. He is a co-founder and director of Functional Analytics and the creator of the ownR Infinity platform. As a data scientist, he also uses ownR for his daily work. His projects include time series analysis for demand forecasting, computer vision for design automation, and visualization.
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