Re: [R-pkg-devel] Accessing R's linked PCRE library from inside a package

2016-08-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 August 2016 at 19:35, Oliver Keyes wrote: | Neat; thanks Dirk! Will be interesting to see if I can get that finnagled on | Windows when I get back to Boston. Come to think about it, there is a bit of good fortune in my use as I - don't need to bother with include flags as pcre as a 'syste

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Accessing R's linked PCRE library from inside a package

2016-08-10 Thread Oliver Keyes
Neat; thanks Dirk! Will be interesting to see if I can get that finnagled on Windows when I get back to Boston. Best, Oliver On Wednesday, 10 August 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 10 August 2016 at 18:15, Oliver Keyes wrote: > | I'm trying to incorporate PCRE-compliant regular expression

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Accessing R's linked PCRE library from inside a package

2016-08-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 August 2016 at 18:15, Oliver Keyes wrote: | I'm trying to incorporate PCRE-compliant regular expressions into C | code in an R package. | | >From digging around in R's source code, it appears that R (pretty | much?) guarantees the presence of either a system-level PCRE library, | or an R-in

[R-pkg-devel] Accessing R's linked PCRE library from inside a package

2016-08-10 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey all, I'm trying to incorporate PCRE-compliant regular expressions into C code in an R package. >From digging around in R's source code, it appears that R (pretty much?) guarantees the presence of either a system-level PCRE library, or an R-internal one.[0] Is this exposed (or grabbable) via t