[R] using fmod in C code to be loaded into R

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Dear People,
>
> I wrote the following bit of C code and (along with other bits) called it
> mycode.c, and compiled the file into a shared library to load into R,
> using R CMD SHLIB mycode.c. This was Ok, but when I tried to load this
> into R using dyn.load("mycode.so") I got the error
>
> > dyn.load("mycode.so")
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> 	unable to load shared library "/home/faheem/research/mycode.so":
>   /home/faheem/research/mycode.so: undefined symbol: Rf_fmod
>
> "Writing R extension" says this function is available as an entry point.
> I have only a vague undertstanding of entry points, but I understand this
> to mean that if I am going to load the compiled code into R to be called
> from R, then I can stick such a function in my code, and provided I have
> the header Rmath.h included, everything will be Ok.
>
> This works with rnorm, for example. What am I doing wrong here?

Nothing. The person who added it to the list in R-exts didn't check
it was included in the binary.  There is C code to do this, but as it is
unused in R itself, it is not included in the binary.

fmod is a standard C function of two arguments, so I have no idea why R has
an unused entry point aliased to fmod with one argument.

I suggest you #undef fmod after the headers, and use the standard form
in your code.

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