[R-SIG-Finance] recommended C++ compiler for R package ?

[John C. Frain]

I am not an expert on C or C++ but I have used the the Mingw MS Windows port of
gcc with the free IDE Mingw Developer (www.parinasoft.com) with success.  There
is another free IDE Dev-C++ (www.blodshed.net/devcpp.html) for Ms Windows which
I have not used but which also uses the Mingw port of gcc.  I have heard good
reports of this.

John


John C. Frain.
Economics Department
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2

www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html
mailto:frainj at tcd.ie


Quoting mel <mel at altk.com>:

> recommended C++ compiler for R package ?
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm an interactive brokers customer and also a fan user of R.
> I wish to use IB TWS API directly from R.
>
> To reach this goal i intend to write a piece of C++ code,
> probably in form of a package,
> which has to be able to speak both with the TWSAPI, and with R
> (at least callable from R).
>
> My question is if there is a recommended compiler
> for developing an R package, or if it doesn't matter ?
> Reading the docs, g++ seems often used, (but often on linux machines).
>
> I have M$VC++6.0, Borland C++ Builder 6, but those compilers like
> to add unuseful stuff, so i'm thinking about g++, but it seems
> that g++ has no associate IDE on windows which is my OS.
>
> Advices much appreciated.
> Thanks
>
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