I have done this and it sounded like all that I needed to do is #include <R.h> to get access to R functionality. However, I was getting compiling errors when attempting to make an R function call directly from C, so I did some research, and this is where I saw the reference to needing the libR.so. By just including R.h, does this provide me with the same R functionality as the references that I saw about the libR.so? If so, then I will continue to use this to access the R functionality and use the "Writing R Extensions" manual. Thanks, Chad Jenness 763-229-0427 -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:30 AM To: Chad.P.Jenness at wellsfargo.com Cc: r-devel at r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Embedding R in C application
On 6/24/2005 9:18 AM, Chad.P.Jenness at wellsfargo.com wrote:
To whom it may concern, I am very interested in embedding the R functionality in our application. This is a C application that currently runs on Win32, but will also run on Linux in the future. From the material that I have seen, I need R compiled as a shared library to evaluate R expressions from C. Is this correct? If so, can I download this shared library
from
somewhere? Is there any API document pertaining to this shared
library? You want to look at the "Writing R Extensions" manual, in particular the chapters on the R API (for access to the underlying computational routines) and the one on linking GUIs or other front-ends (which sounds more like what you want to do). Duncan Murdoch