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...R.h> void read_file(char **filename, char **buf, char **buflen) { FILE *infile; infile = fopen(*filename, "r"); fgets(*buf, *buflen, infile); fclose(infile); } --- R code --- buffer = "xxxxxxxxxx" # kludge! read.file <- function(filename) .C("read_climate", as.character(filename), buf=buffer, buflen=as.integer(10))$buf --- end code --- This works okay, but the only way I could find to allocate a string buffer of the size I want is to use a string literal as in the line marked "kludge" above. It is impractical for l...