On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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).
It also does not work in R-devel on any system that supports visibility attributes, for example Linux systems with gcc4, and some RedHat systems with gcc 3.4.4. I am removing the declarations from R_exts/R-ftp-http.c for R 2.3.0. -- 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
