library
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Heberto Ghezzo wrote:
I also have several packages in my RW0633 in Windoze
and I would like to keep them in one place when I update the R
system.
Brian say to modify Rprofile to
..lib.loc <- c("c:/MyR/library",.Library)
now Rprofile has a line like
.lib.loc <- unique(c(unlist(strsplit(getenv("RLIBS"),":")),.Library)
The ":" is a mistake: it should be ";" on Windows (and is on rw0640).
Sorry to be dense but where should I put the "C:/MyR/library" string?
inside the c("..",unlist...)
I suggesting putting the line in your .Rprofile, not in Rprofile: the `.'
is crucial. That is have .Rprofile containing
.lib.loc <- c("c:/MyR/library", .Library)
Put the .Rprofile file where R will find it: it tries
HOME
R_HOME
the working directory of the shortcut launching Rgui
in turn.
An easier way if this is your personal machine is to replace the
line in etc/Rprofile by the one I have given above.
Now I have another question, I would like to implement the
'CutCorner" mothod of random variable generation, I have the C code
which calls a function which returns the ordinates of the
distribution to be sampled. Since I do not want to generate normals
or betas but distributions estimated from lowess or splines the said
function have to be written in R. Say it is MyDist()
So I need a 'Setup" function that calls the C and set up parameters
and passes the name of the R function to compute the distribution and
a "Rand" function that just calls a C function that returns the
random variate.
Now in R I put .C("Setup_system",as.double(par1),MyDist,....
How do I pass the name of the R function that evaluates the
distribution? i.e. MyDist()
and in Setup_system.c() how do I call the R function?
S_Call("MyDist",par1,..
Sounds to me as if you need to use call_R and pass the function (not its
name) as an argument to .C("Setup_system", ....
Now, there are not many examples of call_R/call_S about. Read the
appropriate section in the Blue Book rather carefully.
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