dyn.load and/or add new package (Windows 98)
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading) wrote:
Acutally the dll's on Splus could be compiled from VC++ and Borland. http://www.mathsoft.com/support/splusmenu.htm check the docs on cfortran.pdf I am surprised that R can't do that. Am I misunderstanding something.
Yes. This is not true for S-PLUS (see the V&R2 programming complements) and the same reasoning applies to R. You can build DLLs on other compilers, but then don't expect to be able to call system routines. BTW: Douglas Steele's caveat on DLLs is out of date: we do know how to build them natively on Windows in a way that works on all Windows platforms. Look back in instructions in the V&R2 `R complements' for details. (www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS2/sites.html)
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