[Rd] Utilizing the internet module

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'd like to utilize the R_Sock* functions from R_ext/R-ftp-http.h in my
>> R package. The intent is to use these in conjunction with R_serialize()
>>  to store R objects in a remote data store. I'm aware that version
>> 2.2.1 of "Writing R extensions" explains that these may be undocumented
>> and unstable, but I have a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) are they platform independent? I presume they are...
>
> Only in sense that they have a common interface.
>
>> 2) What's the appropriate way to link against them? On Linux x86, I can
>> do this with the Makevars:
>
> You can, but that is a module and not a library and so it does not work on
> MacOS X and may well not work on Windows (you would be lucky prior to R
> 2.3.0).

It also does not work in R-devel on any system that supports visibility 
attributes, for example Linux systems with gcc4, and some RedHat systems 
with gcc 3.4.4.  I am removing the declarations from R_exts/R-ftp-http.c 
for R 2.3.0.

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