[Rd] R CMD check: Error in .C

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Oct 26 11:28:13 CET 2009


Etienne Laliberté wrote:
> Function/file names are hypothetical. Say I have written myfunction.R,
> which calls myfunction.c via .C("myfunction", ...).
>
> I've compiled successfully myfunction.c via R CMD SHLIB myfunction.c
> in the terminal. Then, in the R console:
>
> dyn.load("myfunction.so")
> source("myfunction.R")
> test <- myfunction() # works fine
>
> So everything is in order, myfunction works perfectly.
>
> Now I want to include myfunction() into a package called mypackage.
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1) I've added PACKAGE = "mypackage" in the .C() line in myfunction.R.
> 2) I put myfunction.R into the R folder of mypackage
> 3) I put myfunction.c into the src folder of mypackage
> 4) I created myfunction.Rd into the man folder
>
> I then build the package via R CMD build mypackage. All good. However,
> when I run R CMD check mypackage, I get the following error (note that
> I translated from french, might be a bit different in english):
>
> Error in .C("myfunction", ...): C symbol name "myfunction" cannot be
> found in the DLL for package "mypackage"
>
> I would appreciate some help here. Please do not refer my to "Writing
> R extensions" - if the answer's in there, I don't understand it.
>   

What do you get from R CMD INSTALL mypackage? 

Duncan Murdoch
> Many thanks.
>
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