Hi, I recompiled R using gfortran in my personal laptop. But I think it may help if you build an agent C program which calls the FORTRAN program, and then call the C program from R.
I'm also curious on how to solve this problem without too much work. Please let me know if you find a good solution. On Jan 19, 2008 12:58 AM, Steve Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a user here who is attempting to compile a package which > requires f90 (gfortran will do). Our version of R was built with f77 > (g77). When the user attempts to build the package, f77 is always > invoked and fails due to the presence of f90 features. > > Is there a simple method or some documentation on how to force a > package build to use a different compiler than the one used in > building R? If so, are opening ourselves up to any problems? In > particular, we're concerned about API mismatches and fortran library > mismatches, but there may be other problems we've not considered. > > We're using R 2.4.1, linux 2.6/x64, gcc/gfortran 4.0. > > To pre-answer some possible questions/suggestions - > > Doing a full conversion of our R installation is almost certainly not > feasible; we also have legacy packages in place which don't build > with f90/f95. > > Yes, we've thought of installing R built with gfortran and retaining > the old with f77; that's probably our first fallback. Unfortunately > that shuts legac package users from R improvements and will shut them > out from packages which start require R2.6 and up features. We do > *not* wish to run a f77 version of R2.6 and a f95 version of R2.6. > That's probably our last fallback. > > Neither Suleman nor I are on the r-help mailing lists; please try to > cc us on responses. We'll use the maillist archives to try and catch > the responses which don't do that. > > Advance thanks, > > Steve Simmons > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- 彭河森 Hesen Peng ______________________________________________ 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.
