to clarify the example a bit, assume that for lib.loc i always want to search the current working directory of the R session (thus forcing the user to have mylib.so sitting in the directory returned by getwd() when loading the package).
NOTE: this is not how i will finally implement this package, but is a temporary requirement for my writing this package for some colleagues. On Jan 26, 5:16 pm, Murat Tasan <mmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, i'm having some trouble getting a package to load a shared library > object in .onLoad(...) > > i have a shared object file, say "mylib.so". > > if i start an R session, and via the CLI specify the actual library > via:> dyn.load("mylib.so") > > everything works quite well (i.e. i can then follow with some .Call > (...) methods) > > now, i'd like to include this shared library in my package. > assume that the .c file has already been compiled and i have the .so > file at some PATH. > in my zzz.R file i include: > > .onLoad <- function(libname, pkgname) { > library.dynam("mylib", lib.loc = PATH) > > } > > when i load the package, however, i get: > > Error in .find.package(package, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) : > there are no packages called 'RCurl', 'bitops', 'rjson', 'stats', > 'graphics', 'grDevices', 'utils', 'datasets', 'methods', 'base' > > so it appears i need to specify the package name, so if i change the > call to: > > library.dynam("mylib", pkgname, lib.loc = PATH), i get: > > Error in .find.package(package, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) : > there is no package called 'mypackage' > Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'mypackage' > > which makes sense because the package namespace isn't attached yet. > so i'm not really sure what to specify for the package parameter of > library.dynam. > > i've elected to try to use library.dynam() instead of useDynLib() in > the NAMESPACE file because this is a VERY customized package and the > library i'm using will change often enough and will probably be placed > in a non-standard location on the user's system. > > ideas? > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.