Re: [R] advice on package devel with external libs

2010-06-28 Thread Matt Shotwell
Some ideas, 1. Wrap the library as an R package, as you said, and check for the library at configure time (i.e. with autoconf or custom script). But if you do, it would be great to provide an R-level API so that we can all use it. This is the strategy of the 'cairo', 'RGtk', 'rgl', and 'gsl' packa

[R] advice on package devel with external libs

2010-06-28 Thread Murat Tasan
hi all - i'm working on an R package that makes use of my own shared library written in C. but i also am making use of another C-written library. (my package is for facilitating biological namespace translations via online (i.e. up-to-date) biological databases.) problem is, the library i'm using