I have read this section and it appears to be what I am looking for. Thanks for all of your help, Chad Jenness 763-229-0427
-----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Embedding R in C application You need to read the correct part of the manual (and you need a manual from R >= 2.1.0). You are writing a front-end, so read * Linking GUIs and other front-ends to R:: as Duncan suggested. Your comments are not at all consistent with what I wrote there. On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have done this and it sounded like all that I needed to do is > #include <R.h> to get access to R functionality. However, I was > getting compiling errors when attempting to make an R function call > directly from C, so I did some research, and this is where I saw the > reference to needing the libR.so. By just including R.h, does this > provide me with the same R functionality as the references that I saw > about the libR.so? If so, then I will continue to use this to access > the R functionality and use the "Writing R Extensions" manual. > > Thanks, > Chad Jenness > 763-229-0427 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Embedding R in C application > > > On 6/24/2005 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> To whom it may concern, >> I am very interested in embedding the R functionality in our >> application. This is a C application that currently runs on Win32, >> but will also run on Linux in the future. From the material that I >> have seen, I need R compiled as a shared library to evaluate R >> expressions from C. Is this correct? If so, can I download this >> shared library > from >> somewhere? Is there any API document pertaining to this shared > library? > > You want to look at the "Writing R Extensions" manual, in particular > the > > chapters on the R API (for access to the underlying computational > routines) and the one on linking GUIs or other front-ends (which > sounds more like what you want to do). > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
