Yes, this can be done and the call is the same, however the C++ needs to be indicated as <external c>, see details in the writing R extensions manual. hth, Ingmar
On 6 Nov 2007, at 17:05, Deepankar Basu wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to do an ML estimation in R. My likelihood function has > several nested loops and so it takes a lot of time (days when I use > the > genetic algorithm for optimization) for the optimization to finish. > Unable to avoid loops, I am thinking of writing the likelihood > function > in C++ and calling it from within R when using *optim()*. I found that > one can call C functions (once they have been compiled) from within R > with > >> dyn.load("file.so") > > and > >> .C("function", ...) > > Can the same be done for C++ code? > > > Deepankar > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Ingmar Visser Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Roetersstraat 15 1018 WB Amsterdam The Netherlands t: +31-20-5256723 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.