In the following code routine 'initaquaphy' is defined in Fortran, and dynamically loaded into R.:
test.f: subroutine initaquaphy(odeparms) external odeparms double precision pars(19) common /myparms/pars call odeparms(19, pars) return end $ R CMD SHLIB Aquaphy.f gfortran -fpic -g -O2 -c test.f -o test.o gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o test.so test.o -lgfortran -lm and linked into the package dll (or so). Help for is.loaded() and getNativeSymbolInfo() say not to use symbol.For() to convert to Fortran-specific symbols. However, on Linux, getNativeSymbolInfo is unable to find 'initaquaphy' in 'test.so', but does find 'initaquaphy_'. Note that is.loaded() works as advertised. Furthermore, this code works in Windows, R-2.6.2patched44759. triggerbug.R: system("R CMD SHLIB test.f") dyn.load(paste("test",.Platform$dynlib.ext,sep="")) is.loaded("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test") getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy_", PACKAGE="test") getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test") cat("All Done") Resulting in: > source("triggerbug.R", echo=TRUE, print.eval=TRUE) > system("R CMD SHLIB test.f") gfortran -fpic -g -O2 -c test.f -o test.o gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o test.so test.o -lgfortran -lm > dyn.load(paste("test",.Platform$dynlib.ext,sep="")) > is.loaded("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test") [1] TRUE > getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy_", PACKAGE="test") $name [1] "initaquaphy_" $address <pointer: 0x1c03f0> attr(,"class") [1] "NativeSymbol" $package DLL name: test Filename: /home/setzer/tasks/Programming_Projects/test.so Dynamic lookup: TRUE attr(,"class") [1] "NativeSymbolInfo" > getNativeSymbolInfo("initaquaphy", PACKAGE="test") Error in FUN("initaquaphy"[[1L]], ...) : no such symbol initaquaphy in package test > Have I misunderstood the help page, or is this a bug? --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu arch = i686 os = linux-gnu system = i686, linux-gnu status = beta major = 2 minor = 7.0 year = 2008 month = 04 day = 07 svn rev = 45159 language = R version.string = R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-07 r45159) Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:deSolve, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base R. Woodrow Setzer, Ph. D. National Center for Computational Toxicology http://www.epa.gov/comptox US Environmental Protection Agency Mail Drop B205-01/US EPA/RTP, NC 27711 Ph: (919) 541-0128 Fax: (919) 541-1194 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel