[R] Syntax error with .First.lib

[Uwe Ligges]

Phineas Campbell wrote:

> I am trying to build a package which calls some c code.  I want to call the
> dyn.load function when the package is loaded.  To do this I create a
> .First.lib function in MyConv.R file:
> 
> 
> .First.lib<-function("/home/phineas/R_HOME/R-2.0.1/library/", "MyConvolve"){

Your arguments do not have names, and they have to in function 
declarations ....

Uwe Ligges



> 	### Intentionally empty body.  To be replaced by dyn.load function
> }
> 
> R CMD check MyConvolve gives an R syntax error.
> 
> libname is the directory where the package is saved.  The package is being
> stored in the standard library directory, is possible to pass NULL as this
> value?
> 
> pkgname is the string representing the name of the package.
> 
> 
> To clarify some notation; a package is a set of R data, code and objects to
> be used when the package is installed, but a library is a compiled c or
> Fortran binary which can be called by R
> 
> 
> Should this question be posted to R-devel?
> 
> 
>>version
> 
> 
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.9
> arch     sparc
> os       solaris2.9
> system   sparc, solaris2.9
> status
> major    2
> minor    0.1
> year     2004
> month    11
> day      15
> language R
> 
> Phineas Campbell
> pcampbell at econ.bbk.ac.uk
> 
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