> On 7 Mar 2016, at 18:55, Berend Hasselman <b...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 7 Mar 2016, at 16:45, MAURICE Jean - externe 
>> <jean-externe.maur...@edf.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Martyn,
>> 
>> Many thanks for your answer. If I make it short : 
>> we can, once we know how to do it, 'drive' R from within FORTRAN for example 
>> to do a 
>> Myarray = seq(0, mydimension) 
>> in R once we have compute mydimension in FORTRAN. Is that correct ?
> 
> I too do not understand what you mean by this.
> 
> I told you on the R-help mailing list that what you could do is to 
> 
> - write a subroutine that calculates the required dimension given your 
> parameters; you can do this within R code.

Correction: write a subroutine in Fortran that calculates the required 
dimension(s), call that routine from within R and make it return the required 
dimension(s).

etc.etc.

Berend

> - allocate in R (or C) a matrix/vector/.. with the required dimension.
> - call your Fortran subroutine(s) with the allocated matrix/vector
> 
> There are several packages, as I replied before on the R help list,  that do 
> this (from within an R function or a C function).
> 
> 
> Berend
> 
>> If yes : it's too 'complicated' for the time I am hired (I mean I have been 
>> hired to do FORTRAN code not to learn R !).
>> 
>> Second question : for what I have understood in r_exts, it's more 
>> 'efficient' to translate R routines in C rather than in FORTRAN (speed must 
>> be the 'same', but there are a lot more possibilities in C for the 
>> programmer) : right ? I do not know why my customer (client ?) wanted to 
>> translate some R routines in FORTRAN. May be it's by accident (in my humble 
>> opinion they even don't know about C). If you confirm this fact, I'll speak 
>> about C with my customer because we are at the very beginning of great works 
>> (great amounts of work ?) and I don't matter, I am also a skilled C 
>> programmer !!
>> 
>> I hope you understand what I want to say, english is not my natural language 
>> !
>> 
>> Thanks again and best regards.
>> Jean
>> 
>> 
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