R devel - Oct 2006 - Automatic C wrapper generation

Hi,

I'm looking into creating R bindings for a medium sized C library. I 
have read up on how to access simple C functions using the .C and .Call 
methods and what I'm looking for now is a way to automate the generation 
of the necessary glue code.

Ideal would be a SWIG-like package that does most of the leg work of the 
interface generation for R.

Any tips or suggestions in that regard would be appreciated.

Best,
Benjamin


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  Benjamin Georgi
  Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics
  Computational Molecular Biology
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  D-14195 Berlin, Germany              phone: +49-30-8413-1146

On 18 October 2006 at 11:15, Benjamin Georgi wrote:
| I'm looking into creating R bindings for a medium sized C library. I 
| have read up on how to access simple C functions using the .C and .Call 
| methods and what I'm looking for now is a way to automate the generation 
| of the necessary glue code.
| 
| Ideal would be a SWIG-like package that does most of the leg work of the 
| interface generation for R.

Swig 1.3.30 will have basic R support. You can check it out from their CVS.
I haven't used it yet so I do not know how far this will get you.

Dirk

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