[Rd] ALLOCATE in a FORTRAN subroutine

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 7 Mar 2016, at 16:45, MAURICE Jean - externe <jean-externe.maurice at edf.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Martyn,
> 
> Many thanks for your answer. If I make it short : 
> we can, once we know how to do it, 'drive' R from within FORTRAN for example to do a 
>  Myarray = seq(0, mydimension) 
> in R once we have compute mydimension in FORTRAN. Is that correct ?

I too do not understand what you mean by this.

I told you on the R-help mailing list that what you could do is to 

- write a subroutine that calculates the required dimension given your parameters; you can do this within R code.
- allocate in R (or C) a matrix/vector/.. with the required dimension.
- call your Fortran subroutine(s) with the allocated matrix/vector

There are several packages, as I replied before on the R help list,  that do this (from within an R function or a C function).


Berend

> If yes : it's too 'complicated' for the time I am hired (I mean I have been hired to do FORTRAN code not to learn R !).
> 
> Second question : for what I have understood in r_exts, it's more 'efficient' to translate R routines in C rather than in FORTRAN (speed must be the 'same', but there are a lot more possibilities in C for the programmer) : right ? I do not know why my customer (client ?) wanted to translate some R routines in FORTRAN. May be it's by accident (in my humble opinion they even don't know about C). If you confirm this fact, I'll speak about C with my customer because we are at the very beginning of great works (great amounts of work ?) and I don't matter, I am also a skilled C programmer !!
> 
> I hope you understand what I want to say, english is not my natural language !
> 
> Thanks again and best regards.
> Jean
> 
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