[R] Re: [S] dyn.load

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

Moved to R-help: this is an R-specific question.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Juan Ramon Gonzalez wrote:

> Dear s-users,
>
> I need to translate a function of Splus in to R. The function calls a
DLL library using the instruction dll.load. In R exists the function
'dyn.load' and I get the following results

dll.load is not in the current S-PLUS Windows version, BTW.

> > dyn.load("c:/windows/system/my_function.dll")
> > is.loaded("my_function")
> [1] TRUE

>
> but I have problems when I use the  '.Fortran'  function. I get the following message:
>
> > .Fortran("my_function",.....)
> Error in .Fortran("my_function") : C/Fortran function name not in load table
>
> ( where ,....  are the parameters of my_function )
>
> I would like to know why it doesn't work

Because the symbol being looked for is "my_function_".  You are mis-using
is.loaded, in both R and S-PLUS:

     Functions `symbol.C' and `symbol.For' map function or subroutine
     names to the symbol name in the compiled code: `is.loaded' checks
     if the symbol name is loaded and hence available for use in `.C'
     or `.Fortran'.

You needed is.loaded(symbol.For("my_function")).


Perhaps you need to re-read the readme.packages file about Windows Fortran
compilers (assuming you did use a Fortran compiler).

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