read.table() code fails outside of the utils package
On 21/04/2014 18:08, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:43:55PM -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote:
And that's how it should be - there is not reason why any other code should link to it. Why don't you just use .External(utils:::C_readtablehead, ...)
Ah, that works fine, and is nice and simple. So problem solved, thank you! I do still wonder though, with the C symbol made visible in utils.so,
That isn't true on platforms which support hiding entry points. Try % nm -g library/utils/libs/utils.so | grep readtablehead on Linux.
how come this still failed?:
.External("readtablehead", ..., PACKAGE="utils")
Error: "readtablehead" not available for .External() for package "utils"
Rather, you need to tell us why that should have worked .... Maybe you
failed to read in the code
R_init_utils(DllInfo *dll)
{
R_registerRoutines(dll, NULL, CallEntries, NULL, ExtEntries);
R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
R_forceSymbols(dll, TRUE);
}
See 'Writing R Extensions'.
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