On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to utilize the R_Sock* functions from R_ext/R-ftp-http.h in my > R package. The intent is to use these in conjunction with R_serialize() > to store R objects in a remote data store. I'm aware that version > 2.2.1 of "Writing R extensions" explains that these may be undocumented > and unstable, but I have a couple of questions: > > 1) are they platform independent? I presume they are...
Only in sense that they have a common interface. > 2) What's the appropriate way to link against them? On Linux x86, I can > do this with the Makevars: You can, but that is a module and not a library and so it does not work on MacOS X and may well not work on Windows (you would be lucky prior to R 2.3.0). I wonder why you need a C interface at all. There is serialize() and socket connections are available at R level. Below that, Rsockopen etc are exported from R itself and underly make.socket etc. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
