-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear R-Help, as I am not sure where to put this suggestion for improving the documentation in "Writing R extensions" Section 6.6 (Calling C from FORTRAN and vice versa) I send it to R-Help as suggested by the R Bug Report page. In Sect 6.6 an example is given on how to create .f and .c file in order to call C from Fortran and vice versa. For better readability and for preventing ppl calling the .c and the .f file the same base name (causing "multiple definitions of symbol") I suggest that the docu should provide file names for the two example programs, e.g.: frand.f: subroutine testit() double precision normrnd, x call rndstart() x = normrnd() call dblepr("X was", 5, x, 1) call rndend() end frand-helper.c: #include <R.h> /* Fortran */ void F77_SUB(rndstart)(void) { GetRNGstate(); } void F77_SUB(rndend)(void) { PutRNGstate(); } double F77_SUB(normrnd)(void) { return norm_rand(); } As a further suggestion, it would also be nice to provide the call for generating the dynamic library at this point: R CMD SHLIB frand.f frand-helper.c . At least this would have helped me in trying to get things to work, but again - its just a suggestion. Best regards, Michael - -- Michael H?hle, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Munich Ludwigstrasse 33 80539 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 2180 6404 Fax: +49 89 2180 5040 Email: hoehle at stat.uni-muenchen.de Homepage: http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~hoehle PGP public key id: 0xA9589121 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJaLoYJenxFqlYkSERAgMeAKCtuX+SByQR4Eo1/xJj8Pg073jM8ACfa56t 7xnDhLzuS4q75ownnESyqek=yYKr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----