[R] dyn.load and/or add new package (Windows 98)

[Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading)]

Acutally the dll's on Splus could be compiled from VC++ and Borland.
http://www.mathsoft.com/support/splusmenu.htm
check the docs on cfortran.pdf
I am surprised that R can't do that. Am I misunderstanding something.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Douglas Steele 
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 01, 1998 2:24 PM
> To:	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:	Re: [R] dyn.load and/or add new package (Windows 98)
> 
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.981128001121.4739B-100000 at ysidro>, Alvaro A.
> Novo <anovo at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> writes
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have been trying to dyn.load a library (rq.obj), which will allow me to
> run
> >a quantile regression function, but so far unsuccessfully.
> In R, you can only dyn.load dll files, not obj files.  In addition they
> have to be built with the Mingw32 compiler (either directly on a Win9*
> system, or cross-compiled from a unix system).  Even then, there is a
> bug in Win9* built dll's which may prevent dynamic loading (cross-
> compiled OK).  See Guido's help file for more information on building
> dll's.
> 
> Perhaps you are confusing R with S+ where an obj file can be dynamically
> loaded with dyn.load, provided the obj file was created with the Watcom
> 10.* compiler.
> 
> 
> >This quantile regression package was prepared by Prof. Roger Koenker for 
> >Windows (he uses Unix).
> Did he design it for use with R on a Windows system ?  What compiler did
> he use ?
> 
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