[Rd] how to install header files in package

[Kjell Konis]

Here's what I'm doing: I define some C functions in pkgA and register  
them with R_RegisterCCallable and I want to use them in pkgB. When  
building pkgB, R CMD INSTALL expects to find the header files for the  
registered C functions in pkgA*/include (where the * denotes the  
installed version of pkgA). AFAICT there is no mechanism to put the  
header files from pkgA into pkgA*/include.

Putting the header files in pkgA/inst/include solves the problem but  
it seems like there should be a better way to do this.

Kjell



On 13 juin 08, at 16:54, Bill Dunlap wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13 June 2008 at 14:28, Kjell Konis wrote:
>> | Is there a way to get R CMD INSTALL (and friends) to copy the  
>> header
>> | files from a source package's src directory to the include  
>> directory?
>>
>> Only if you (ab-)use the 'make all' target in src/Makefile to copy  
>> them, as a
>> recent thread on r-devel showed.  Some of us suggested that a 'make  
>> install'
>> target would be a nice thing to have.
>
> Which 'include' directory do you mean?  $RHOME/include or
> <pkg>/include?
>
> You could put a copy of the *.h files into inst/include
> to get them into <pkg>/include.
>
> Putting them into $RHOME/include isn't always desirable
> or possible (permission problems).  If you install
> *.h files then you are probably also distributing
> *.so, *.dll, and *.lib (on Windows) files and they
> should go into a parallel directory.  Where should
> they go?
>
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