[Rd] swig 1.3.35 & R - is the R wrapper still maintained and of interest?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Dear all,

I was trying to use the R swig wrapper with R 2.7 and shogun
( http://www.shogun-toolbox.org ) but it fails completely, as in doesn't
even compile and even after patching then though compiling - crashes...

So I asked on swig-users/swig-devel CC'ing the potential R maintainer
but I never received a reply. I now wonder if anyone here could help or
would be willing to maintain R+swig.

The compile fix for R 2.7 is here

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.swig/12697

and the crash I am now that it compiles see is

#0  0xb804e201 in _dl_debug_state () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0xb8051608 in dl_open_worker () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#2  0xb804d5d6 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0xb8050f5e in _dl_open () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#4  0xb74c3c19 in dlopen_doit () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
#5  0xb804d5d6 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#6  0xb74c42bc in _dlerror_run () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
#7  0xb74c3b51 in dlopen@@GLIBC_2.1 () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2
#8  0xb7efd036 in loadLibrary (path=0xbfa5650c "/home/sonne/Documents/work/fml/repositories/shogun/trunk/src/features/Features.so", asLocal=1, now=1, search=0x9a81f20 "") at dynload.c:92
#9  0xb7d6efb3 in AddDLL (path=0xbfa5650c "/home/sonne/Documents/work/fml/repositories/shogun/trunk/src/features/Features.so", asLocal=1, now=1, DLLsearchpath=0x9a81f20 "") at Rdynload.c:543
#10 0xb7d6f657 in do_dynload (call=0x9e23998, op=0x9a91e44, args=0xa60d5e0, env=0xa60d650) at Rdynload.c:904
#11 0xb7e43dba in do_internal (call=0x9e239d0, op=0x9a8798c, args=0xa60d5e0, env=0xa60d650) at names.c:1129
#12 0xb7e0df21 in Rf_eval (e=0x9e239d0, rho=0xa60d650) at eval.c:463
#13 0xb7e11a3c in Rf_applyClosure (call=0xa60d74c, op=0x9e23a94, arglist=0xa60d6dc, rho=0x9a9a720, suppliedenv=0x9a9a73c) at eval.c:669
#14 0xb7e0de19 in Rf_eval (e=0xa60d74c, rho=0x9a9a720) at eval.c:507
#15 0xb7e31a00 in Rf_ReplIteration (rho=0x9a9a720, savestack=0, browselevel=0, state=0xbfa589a8) at main.c:257
#16 0xb7e31ddc in run_Rmainloop () at main.c:306
#17 0xb7e31e1c in Rf_mainloop () at main.c:974
#18 0x08048776 in main (ac=1, av=0xb805b668) at Rmain.c:35
#19 0xb7be8450 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#20 0x08048691 in _start ()

To reproduce

wget http://nn7.de/debugging/shogun-0.6.1+svn2882.tar.bz2
tar xjf shogun-0.6.1+svn2882.tar.bz2
cd shogun-0.6.1+svn2882/src
./configure --interface=R-modular
make

(wait a few minutes)

R
dyn.load('features/Features.so')
#source("features/Features.R") # not even necessary.

Note that shogun works for both python and octave nicely...

So the question for me is, will this be better maintained in the future
or should I stop investing time on getting R supported?

Desperate,
Soeren