Dear All,
I have been trying to connect to haver to download data and have made some good
progress.
I am stuck at a point and would appreciate your help.
Haver provides a dll called DLXAPI32 using which i can connect to excel/vb/c
etc.
Now i tried calling it from R and used following code:
options(warn.FPU = TRUE)
dyn.load("DLL/dlxapi32.dll")
Warning message:
In inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f
--- gives a warning that dll attempted to change hex code
Since its just a warning, I ignored it, since my code options(warn.FPU = TRUE)
will let me know if the hex code is actually changed
is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase")
[1] TRUE
# is.loaded is a function to check if "DLXOpenDatabase" symbol is loaded. As
the output shows this symbol gets loaded and is ready to be used
> is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase")
[1] TRUE
> is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase",type= "C")
[1] TRUE
> is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase",type= "Call")
[1] TRUE
> is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase",type= "External")
[1] TRUE
> is.loaded("DLXOpenDatabase",type= "Fortran")
[1] TRUE
Above code lines show that the function DLXOpenDatabase is available to be used.
Now, when i use the following call the R crashes
.C("DLXOpenDatabase","W:/DLX/USECON")
"W:/DLX/USECON" is parameter for the function DLXOpenDatabase which is
successfully used in VB call
Normally this call should give me an output "0" which shows the connection is
successfully established, but the R crashes.
My question is "Is this because Haver DLL malfunctioned" or is this because i
am doing something wrong.
http://127.0.0.1:29087/library/base/html/dynload.html is the link to help i used
Thanks in advance for your help.
Amit
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