Re: [Rd] Philosophy behind converting Fortran to C for use in R

2017-06-07 Thread Martyn Byng
Adler Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] Philosophy behind converting Fortran to C for use in R Here are three reasons for converting Fortran code, especially older Fortran code, to C: 1. The C-Fortran interface is not standardized. Various Fortran compilers pass logical and character arguments in va

Re: [Rd] Philosophy behind converting Fortran to C for use in R

2017-06-06 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
Here are three reasons for converting Fortran code, especially older Fortran code, to C: 1. The C-Fortran interface is not standardized. Various Fortran compilers pass logical and character arguments in various ways. Various Fortran compilers mangle function and common block names in variousl wa

[Rd] Philosophy behind converting Fortran to C for use in R

2017-06-06 Thread Avraham Adler
Hello. This is not a question about a bug or even best practices; rather I'm trying to understand the philosophy or theory as to why certain portions of the R codebase are written as they are. If this question is better posed elsewhere, please point me in the proper direction. In the thread about