[Rd] inheriting C symbols

[Jeff Ryan]

This has been discussed before:

http://www.nabble.com/Dynamic-linking-to-binary-code-from-other-packages---td20167535.html#a20474561

Take a look at 'xts' on cran, or R-forge.  Specifically:

http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/pkg/inst/api_example/README?rev=386&root=xts&view=markup

HTH
Jeff

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Terry Therneau<therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
> The package coxme depends heavily on bdsmatrix, to the point of needing
> access to some of its C calls.  The kinship package (in progress) uses
> the R level functions in bdsmatrix, but not the C calls.  That is, I
> don't want to always export the symbols.
>
> For testing I can use an explicit dyn.load('somepath/bsdmatrix.so',
> local=F).  How do I incorporate such a dependency in the DESCRIPTION
> file for coxme, so that it happens in general?
>
> Terry T.
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