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[Rcpp-devel] Installing the C Packages

3 messages · Maximilian Metti, Slava Razbash, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Hello, I recently downloaded the Rcpp package and am having some trouble
installing the libraries for my C++ code.  Getting this package to work in
R is fine, but there's no installation script to install the Rcpp.h library
so that I can compile my C code.  I'd appreciate if someone could let me
know if there are any installation instructions for this.

Thanks!
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I suggest that you use the R function Rcpp.package.skeleton() to
create a "skeleton package". Then compile a package with your C++/Rcpp
code. Read this pdf:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/vignettes/Rcpp-package.pdf

You could also read Dirk's answer to this question on stack overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7735451/how-do-i-compile-a-dll-with-r-and-rcpp

Best Regards,

Slava
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Maximilian Metti <mmetti at math.ucsd.edu> wrote:
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Hi, and welcome!
On 27 November 2011 at 21:12, Maximilian Metti wrote:
| Hello, I recently downloaded the Rcpp package and am having some trouble
| installing the libraries for my C++ code. ?Getting this package to work in R
| is fine,

Ok. So far. so good.

| but there's no installation script to install the Rcpp.h library so
| that I can compile my C code. ?I'd appreciate if someone could let me know if
| there are any installation instructions for this.

I am confused. And just maybe so are you?  What exactly is it you are trying
to do _with C_ using _Rcpp from the outside_ /

Rcpp is an R package, which provides a richer C++ API on top of an underlying
C API native to R.  That's all.

[ We have other things such as RInside which are related and which allow you
to embed in C++ applications, but that is another story.  We have no pure C
libraries here. ]

Dirk