[R] how to call R from fortran?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:28:55 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: lfeyen at vub.ac.be (Luc Feyen)
> 
> I have a main fortran program and within a loop of this program 
> i would like to call R. I need to transfer a rather large 
> matrix (100 by 25000) between the two codes. Can anyone suggest 
> me the most efficient way to do this or give me more general 
> information on how i can call R from my fortran program or 
> where i can find some related information. 

You can't call R from Fortran, AFAIK.  You can call R from C code
loaded into R, and if you know enough about the internals (or are using
Windows where it is documented somewhat) you can call R from a C main
program.  The types you need to use to communicate with R (C
null-terminated strings, for one) are not supported by Fortran.

Perhaps if you told us a bit more about what you actually want to
achieve we could suggest ways around this.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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