Re: [R-pkg-devel] Using shared libraries

2018-03-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 March 2018 at 19:47, Ogan Mancarci wrote: | I have been looking for ways to use shared libraries in packages in CRAN | and be able to write tests for them. Well the basic problem here is that shared libraries are in fact provided by the _operating system_ and hence you just introduced an OS

[R-pkg-devel] Using shared libraries

2018-03-28 Thread Ogan Mancarci
I have been looking for ways to use shared libraries in packages in CRAN and be able to write tests for them. When installing packages that depend on shared libraries, if a library is missing from the system we often get a nice error message complaining about the missing library during installatio