[Rd] forcing R CMD COMPILE

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Pedro Ribeiro de Andrade Neto wrote:

>
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Pedro Ribeiro de Andrade Neto wrote:
>>
>>> I am developing a package with a lot of C++ code, and I have a question
>>> about R CMD COMPILE. As I can see, when the package's Makefile calls
>>>
>>> R CMD COMPILE foo.cpp
>>
>> Why does your package have a Makefile?  And why is it calling COMPILE and
>> not SHLIB?
>>
>
> My package has a Makefile because I need to compile 16 .cpp files. After
> it, I call R CMD SHLIB.

R CMD SHLIB would do that for you.  Many packages using multiple .cpp 
files have no Makefile.  Please study the many examples on CRAN.

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