[R] Create package with Fortran 90 and C code

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh wrote:

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> I'm trying to add some Fortran 90 code to an existing package.
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> When I compile and load the file manually like:
> SHELL> R CMD SHLIB file.f90
> R> dyn.load("file.so")
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> I can use the .Fortran() fine. However, when I try to build, install and load
> the library I seem to be missing something.
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> I do a:
> SHELL> R CMD build dir
> SHELL> R CMD INSTALL pkg_version.tar.gz
>
> Things seem to progress smoothly. However, in R when I try to load the package I
> get an error like:
>
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library
> '/cs/home/cslsi/wat410/R/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.7/pkg/libs/pkg.so':
>  /cs/home/cslsi/wat410/R/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.7/pkg/libs/pkg.so:
> undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'pkg'
>
> Can anyone suggest what I might do to solve this?

See the posting guide!  This is a question about compiled code, hence 
for the R-devel list.

You are apparently using an obsolete R, and it rather looks as if you 
are using C++ with Fortran 90, something that is not supported (since 
in general it does not work, and you need to tell us the compilers you 
are using).

So please post a much more complete description on R-devel, and 
perhaps make the failing package available for potential helpers to 
look at.

> Cheers,
> Nathan

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