The RDCOMclient package can be used to connect to COM objects on Windows. In the MSDN reference many enumerations exist (e.g. wdColorBlue for blue, see here) which correspond to a value. These can be directly used e.g. in VBA code.
How can I work with enumeration objects using RDCOMClient? Is there e.g. a way to retrieve the corresponding value for an enumeration from within R? There is a function EnumValue but I do not see how to use it for this purpose.
A small example
The following codes creates a new Word document and writes some text in it. The paragraph is changed to right alignment. Here the integer 2 is used which corresponds to the enumeration wdAlignParagraphRight. I would like to be able to use e.g. the string "wdAlignParagraphRight" instead of the value 2. Is there a way to do that using RDCOMclient?
x <- COMCreate("Word.Application") # create application
x[["visible"]] <- TRUE
x[["Documents"]]$Add()
x[["Selection"]]$TypeText("hello")
p <- x[["ActiveDocument"]][["Paragraphs"]]$Item(1)
p[["Alignment"]] <- 2
