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dyn.load and/or add new package (Windows 98)

1 message · Douglas Steele

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In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.981128001121.4739B-100000 at ysidro>, Alvaro A.
Novo <anovo at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> writes
In R, you can only dyn.load dll files, not obj files.  In addition they
have to be built with the Mingw32 compiler (either directly on a Win9*
system, or cross-compiled from a unix system).  Even then, there is a
bug in Win9* built dll's which may prevent dynamic loading (cross-
compiled OK).  See Guido's help file for more information on building
dll's.

Perhaps you are confusing R with S+ where an obj file can be dynamically
loaded with dyn.load, provided the obj file was created with the Watcom
10.* compiler.
Did he design it for use with R on a Windows system ?  What compiler did
he use ?