[Rd] Problem with R math library. [and a minor bug report]
Guillaume Yziquel
guillaume.yziquel at citycable.ch
Thu Jan 28 18:14:04 CET 2010
Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
>
> Well, Debian comes to the rescue. Do 'sudo apt-get install r-mathlib' to the
> standalone library. Then copy the example file out, add the missing 'extern
> N01type N01_kind;' (and that it is missing may well be a bug -- I used 2.10.1
> here -- anyone from R Core listening in who can add the one line ?)
>
> edd at ron:~> cp /usr/share/doc/r-mathlib/examples/test.c /tmp/
> edd at ron:~> grep extern /tmp/test.c
> extern N01type N01_kind; /* from nmath/snorm.c */
> edd at ron:~> gcc -o /tmp/mathlibtest /tmp/test.c -lRmath -lm
> edd at ron:~> /tmp/mathlibtest
> *** loaded '/tmp/mathlibtest'
> one normal 1.119638
> normal via BM -1.734578
> edd at ron:~>
OK. Thanks. Hadn't noticed the documentation of r-mathlib. Should have
known better.
However, I still do not understand what the -lm is useful for.
> I hope this answers your questions -- the standalone math library links with
> only its libRmath and nothing else from R. It also only consume Rmath.h
> (which I put into /usr/include so you need no -I arguments to gcc).
Yes, that answers my question.
> Hope this helps, Dirk
>
> PS For reference, here is test.c with line edited in:
>
> /*
> * Mathlib : A C Library of Special Functions
> * Copyright (C) 2000-7 The R Development Core Team
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> * (at your option) any later version.
> *
> * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> * GNU General Public License for more details.
> *
> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> * along with this program; if not, a copy is available at
> * http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
> *
> */
>
> #define MATHLIB_STANDALONE 1
> #include <Rmath.h>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> typedef enum {
> BUGGY_KINDERMAN_RAMAGE,
> AHRENS_DIETER,
> BOX_MULLER,
> USER_NORM,
> INVERSION,
> KINDERMAN_RAMAGE
> } N01type;
>
> extern N01type N01_kind; /* from nmath/snorm.c */
>
> int
> main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
> /* something to force the library to be included */
> qnorm(0.7, 0.0, 1.0, 0, 0);
> printf("*** loaded '%s'\n", argv[0]);
> set_seed(123, 456);
> N01_kind = AHRENS_DIETER;
> printf("one normal %f\n", norm_rand());
> set_seed(123, 456);
> N01_kind = BOX_MULLER;
> printf("normal via BM %f\n", norm_rand());
>
> return 0;
> }
>
>
--
Guillaume Yziquel
http://yziquel.homelinux.org/
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