R as shared library

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From: r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Horner
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:17 PM
To: Byron Ellis
Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] R as shared library


Byron Ellis wrote:

Building the callbacks is possible. Basically, you need to 

construct a 

fake DllInfo object for Apache and then use 

R_registerRoutines to attach 

the callbacks to R as it if were a normal R package registering its 
routines.

I might have a simple example of this lying around, I'll 

see if I can 

find it (especially since it seems I'll be needing it 

myself soon :-))

Yes. I thought about that, but that solution may break on future R 
releases and may hinder porting to other platforms outside of 
the UNIX 
family. I'm going to try Duncan's suggestion of a third dll 
which will 
install like a traditional R package.

-- 
Jeffrey Horner       Computer Systems Analyst         School 
of Medicine
615-322-8606         Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt 
University