[R] .C help

[Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.]

See http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/ and "R
Installation and Administration" manual for details that will have to be
followed very precisely.

My own 2 cents below should be taken as fuzzy recollections, compared to
detailed directions in 2 sources above. I do not know if they are the
easiest or even correct, but they work.

There are 2 ways to compile that I tried (both use MinGW compiler):
- compile C into dll. Copy dll to the same directory as R functions. 
    I was compiling on WIN XT machine by double clicking on "any-name.bat"
text file containing:
         cl /MT /Ox /D "WIN32"  /c runfunc.c
         link /dll /EXPORT:runquantile /EXPORT:runmean /EXPORT:runmad
/out:runfunc.dll *.obj 
         pause
    My code was in "runfunc.c". C Functions I was planning on calling were:
"runquantile" "runmean" "runmad". DLL name was "runfunc.dll"

- follow the steps as if you were building a package (even if you are not
planing on releasing it). This way was much easier, but only after I
installed many other tools needed for package instalation/compilation. After
everything was correctly set up the actual package compilation is done by
double-clicking on "C:\programs\R\rw2011\src\gnuwin32\install_caTools.bat"
text file containing:
        RCMD install C:/programs/R/rw2011/src/library/caTools
        pause
  
Both of those approaches (I think) required R beeing installed in a path
with no spaces (for example R can not be installed in default spot
"c:\Program Files\R" since "program files" have space between two words.
Also I remember having a lot of trouble ordering directories on my PATH
(envirinmental variable - see "my computer/properties/advanced/Environment
Variables").

 Jarek 
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Lawson
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:46 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] .C help

Hi,
 
I am hoping some one can help me.  I am learning to use C and would like to
learn how to call c code in R.  I have look at Writing R Extensions

 

 

and I tried to copy the example on page 38 

 

void convolve(double *a, int *na, double *b, int *nb, double *ab)

{

int i, j, nab = *na + *nb - 1;

for(i = 0; i < nab; i++)

ab[i] = 0.0;

for(i = 0; i < *na; i++)

for(j = 0; j < *nb; j++)

ab[i + j] += a[i] * b[j];

}

called from R by

conv <- function(a, b)

.C("convolve",

as.double(a),

as.integer(length(a)),

as.double(b),

as.integer(length(b)),

ab = double(length(a) + length(b) - 1))$ab

 

 

and I got the error "C" function name not in load table.

 

Do I need to compile the C code first?

Do I need a c copmiler at all?

 

Any suggestions for a begginner?

 

Thanks,

 

Elizabeth Lawson

I 


		
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