Dear Hartwig,

I think there are many packages that use F90 code and you should really be
able to call it by following the advices in the R-exts
manual. There are no major differences with F77 and you do not need a C
wrapper. Maybe you might start with a simple example like this one.

start file foo.f90 *******************

SUBROUTINE foo(X,M,N,S)

   IMPLICIT NONE
   integer:: M,N
   real*8:: X(M,N),S

   S  = sum(X);

END SUBROUTINE foo

end  file foo.f90 *******************

compile:
gfortran  -shared foo.f90 -o foo.so

open R ************************
dyn.load("foo.so")
is.loaded("foo")

TRUE

m <- matrix(1,nrow=4,ncol=3)
storage.mode(m) <- "double"
S <- double(1)
 .Fortran("foo",m,nrow(m),ncol(m),S)

[[1]]
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    1    1
[2,]    1    1    1
[3,]    1    1    1
[4,]    1    1    1

[[2]]
[1] 4

[[3]]
[1] 3

[[4]]
[1] 12


ciao

Simone


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Hartwig Deneke
<hartwig.deneke@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am currently trying to create a package wrapping Fortran90 code, the
> RRTMG radiative transfer model( http://rtweb.aer.com/rrtm_frame.html).
> I am doing this on a Linux workstation, with gcc/gfortran, in case
> this matters. The code heavily relies on F90 features, in particular
> modules, which seem to clash with R's assumptions for calling compiled
> code.
>
> What I have done:
> -compiled the files to mod/object files using gfortran
> -am able to create a dynamic link library "librrtmg.so"
>
> Further experiments:
> - dyn.load('librrtmg.so') works
> -. with "objdump -T librrtmg.so", I have found the following function
> symbols to call:
>    1. __rrtmg_lw_init_MOD_rrtmg_lw_ini (the initialization of the code)
>    2. __rrtmg_öw_rad_MOD_rrtmg_lw (the actual main function I want
> to call to do the calculations)
> - These symbols are found via "is.loaded", but only without specifying
> "type='FORTRAN'" (I have experimented with upper/lowercase letters as
> well as dropping the leading underscores)
> - I have not been able to call these routines via the ".Fortran" interface.
> - I do managed to call a simple F90 subroutine (with similar argument
> list, for experimentation) via the ".C" interface. However, I am not
> able to  pass 2D field of type "DOUBLE", but always get a crash.
>
> Is there any official way for calling Fortran90 libraries which I
> missed (I have both searched through the documentation and this list)?
> Any advice how to go about this? My best idea at the moment seems to
> be to write a simple C wrapper for the Fortran routines, and call the
> wrapper from R. If needed, I can also post some code from my
> experiments. I'd actually like to get something which could be
> submitted to CRAN out of this (are there any other packages depending
> on Fortran90 code?)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Hartwig Deneke
>
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