[R] Need help in calling C code from R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See the manual we wrote to help you, 'Writing R Extensions'.  If that is 
not enough, the topic is covered in several books on R, including 'S 
Programming'.  You can also find on-line tutorials of various qualities 
(often obsolete or inaccurate).

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Rainer M Krug wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to implement the "Earth Movers Distance" into R and found
> the code in C on the following page:
>
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~tomasi/software/emd.htm
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know much (nearly nothing) about C and how to
> call it from R.
> As far as I have seen, the calling of the code from R should be rather
> straight forward, but there are still several things I don't
> understand.
>
> Could somebody please help me in calling the code from R?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
> P.S: if the code works nicely, I would like to either put it into a
> package or add it to one.
>
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> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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