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@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ R is a GPL'ed open source statistical and plotting environment.
Information about R can be found at <a
href="http://www.r-project.org/">www.r-project.org</a>.
The R binding are under active development and are extremely
experimental. Not all features have been implemented and the API is
not stable.
The R bindings are under active development. They have been used to
compile and run an R interface to QuantLib running on Mandriva Linux
with gcc, and testing on other platforms is appreciated.
</p>
<H2><a name="R_nn2"></a>32.1 Bugs</H2>
@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ Currently the following features are not implemented or broken:
<p>
To use R and SWIG in C mode, execute the following commands where
example_func.c is the name of the file with the functions in them
example.c is the name of the file with the functions in them
</p>
<div class="shell">
<pre>
swig -r -o example,c example.i
PKG_LIBS="example_func.c" R CMD SHLIB example.c
swig -r example.i
PKG_LIBS="example.c" R CMD SHLIB example_wrap.c
</pre>
</div>
@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ The corresponding comments for C++ mode are
<div class="shell">
<pre>
swig -c++ -r -o example.cpp example.i
PKG_LIBS="example_func.cxx" R CMD SHLIB example.cpp
swig -c++ -r example.i
PKG_LIBS="example.cxx" R CMD SHLIB example_wrap.cpp
</pre>
</div>
@ -79,22 +79,43 @@ rather than cxx for the R compile command to recognize it.
</p>
<p>
The commands produce two files. A dynamic shared object file called
example.so and an R wrapper file called example_wrap.S. To load these
The commands produces two files. A dynamic shared object file called
example_wrap.so and an R wrapper file called example_wrap.R. To load these
files, start up R and type in the following commands
</p>
<div class="shell">
<pre>
dyn.load('example.so')
source('example_wrap.S')
dyn.load('example_wrap.so')
source('example_wrap.R')
cacheMetaData(1)
</pre>
</div>
The cacheMetaData(1) will cause R to refresh its object tables.
Without it, inheritance of wrapped objects may fail.
<p>
These two files can be loaded in any order
</p>
<H2>Precompiling large R files</H2>
In cases where the R file is large, one make save a lot of loading
time by precompiling the R wrapper. This can be done by creating the
file makeRData.R which contains the following
<pre>
source('BigFile_wrap.R')
save(list=ls(all=TRUE),file="BigFile_wrap.RData", compress=TRUE)
q(save="no")
</pre>
This will generate a compiled R file called BigFile_wrap.RData that
will save a large amount of loading time.
<H2><a name="R_nn4"></a>32.3 General policy</H2>