R in standalone application

Eric,

I am trying to build a C application where I need to compute some  
statistics to take decisions about the direction to give to a user,  
knowing his/her habits. Because I used R back at school, I thought I  
can use some of his functions in my application,  as a shared  
library. I reviewed the "Rinternals" and "R extensions"  documents,  
and decided to give a try to the REmbedded.c file. Compilation and  
linking went well. But the execution failed with a "Fatal error: R  
home directory is not defined". Does it mean that R has to to be  
distributed with my application or, did I miss something in my  
readings ?
Yes - you didn't read the 8.1 section of R-ext attentively enough. It  
tells you that you need to setup the environment properly and the  
easiest way to do that on unix is to run
R CMD yourApp

Clearly, R must be installed in order to use your application, since  
your application is using R ;). It is common for the embedding  
application to determine the correct settings before starting R (see  
the R.app GUI on how to setup the environment on a Mac in a GUI  
application [you can still use R CMD though], see for example Rserve  
on how to find the R settings from the registry on Windows).

Cheers,
Simon
If that is of any importance, I am working on unix but aim for full  
portability (i.e Windows too)

Thanks for any assistance.

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