Who cares that "An Introduction to the .C Interface to R" is not an
"Official" manual.
Does it matter?
I was just trying to site where I got the code from and not claim it as my
own. Would you prefer if I plagiarized stuff Professor?
Sorry for not posting in devel, I thought this was a basic question.
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> That is a linker (not compiler) message, and you apparently forgot to link
> against R.dll. See README.packages in the R distribution for how to use
> VC++ with R under Windows (which is neither recommended nor supported).
>
> Three other comments.
>
> 1) See the posting guide. R-devel is the list for non-R programming
> questions.
>
> 2) See the posting guide. You didn't show how you compiled your code nor
> what exact command gave that error message.
>
> 3) See 'Writing R Extensions'. For that code to be any use with R, it has
> to have a C and not C++ entry point 'hello'.
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, nmarti wrote:
>
>>
>> I have searched through the threads and "Rprintf" causing a build error
>> dosen't seem to be a problem for anyone else. And I've read through "R
>> Extensions" and "An Introduction to the .C Interface to R" and there
>> doesn't
>> seem to be any troubleshooting for my problem.
>
> Well, you _are_ using an unsupported compiler/linker.
>
>> My code is straight from "An Introduction to the .C Interface to R" pg.
>> 3.
>
> Which is what? (Not an official manual.)
>
>> And my compiler is VC++ 2005 Express
>> ----------------------
>> #include <R.h>
>>
>> void hello( int *n ) {
>> int i ;
>> for( i = 0 ; i < *n ; i++ ) {
>> Rprintf( "Hello, world!\n" ) ;
>> }
>> }
>> ----------------------
>> When I try to build this code, I recieve 2 error massages,
>> "error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Rprintf referenced in
>> function
>> "void _cdecl hello(int *n)" (?hello@@[EMAIL PROTECTED])"
>> "fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals"
>>
>> To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what these errors mean, I'm still
>> learning C++.
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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