Ok, I did the following experiment
dyn.load("/usr/local/lib/libf2c.so.2.0")
dyn.load("try.so")
.Fortran("try", 10.5)
where try.so contains the following compiled subroutine
subroutine try(x)
double precision x
write(*,*) x
return
end
It worked just fine (at least here on my FreeBSD machine at home).
So it seems that it will be easy to make all of f2c available,
including the all the IO stuff.
It should be easy to package the libf2c sources as an R library.
I'm hesitant to put it into the core R distribution, because it
adds a lot of source, although this would ensure that it was always
available.
So, should it go in the R core, or to CRAN?
Ross
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Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:> It should be easy to package the libf2c sources as an R library. > I'm hesitant to put it into the core R distribution, because it > adds a lot of source, although this would ensure that it was always > available. > > So, should it go in the R core, or to CRAN? > RossCRAN. Linuxites have in their distributions already, for instance. Nothing good will come from having it twice. Possibly in different versions... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At 15:15 21/08/97, p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk wrote:>Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes: > >> It should be easy to package the libf2c sources as an R library. >> I'm hesitant to put it into the core R distribution, because it >> adds a lot of source, although this would ensure that it was always >> available. >> >> So, should it go in the R core, or to CRAN? >> Ross > >CRAN. Linuxites have in their distributions already, for instance. >Nothing good will come from having it twice. Possibly in different >versions...I agree. The require function is designed to take care of this situation surely? Indeed, there is already a contributed library (survival) which depends on another contributed library (splines). Martyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-