[R] problem driving R from Python

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 mikalzet at libero.it wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
>
> > A quick guess would be that R was not built as a shared library.
> > Specifically, does the file $R_HOME/bin/libR.so exist?
> > If not, you can rebuild R with
> >
> >   cd $R_HOME
> >   ./configure  --enable-R-shlib
> >   make
> >
> > and then re-install RSPython.
>
> That's it. That means also that all Mandrake and probably Red-Hat rpm's do
> not build R as a shared library.
>
> I think it might be a good idea to change the spec file to allow for that
> - so at least this could be corrected for R 1.4.1

If you do, you need to arrange to run the tests which show that it worked.
They are in tests/Embedding and not run by make check.

Also, this sets up all packages to be linked against libR.so, which may
not be desirable for the average user.

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