Hello, I just discovered that I cannot close the Excel application and task manager shows numerous copies of Excel.exe
I tried both x$Quit() # shown in the rcom archive and x$Exit() and Excel refuses to die. Thank you very much. S. "You can't kill me, I will not die" Mojo Nixon I also have a problem with saving. It produces a pop-up dialog and does not take my second parameter: x<-comCreateObject("Excel.Application") wb<-comInvoke(comGetProperty(x,"Workbooks"),"Open","G: /MR/Stephen/repo. xls", "0") sh<-comGetProperty(wb,"Worksheets","Market Data") range1 <- comGetProperty(sh,"Range","C10","I11") vals <- comGetProperty(range1,"Value") comInvoke(wb,"Close","G:/MR/Stephen/repo.xls","True") # True is ignored Thank you All. Stephen ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.