[R] The old Fortran underscore problem

Frank E Harrell Jr feh3k at cms.mail.virginia.edu
Wed Jun 6 18:28:40 CEST 2001


I have dealt with this on so many platforms in
the past that I should know the answer by now.
I looked in V&R S Programming, R manuals and FAQ
and still can't find the answer.

In the Hmisc library I used the R scripts to build
the package, which creates Hmisc.so.  I have
library.dynam('Hmisc', ...) in the .First.lib.
When doing library(Hmisc) I get 
  Error in dyn.load .... undefined symbol rank_
Note that I do not call dyn.load myself.
The Hmisc library has a Fortran module named
rcorr.f which issues CALL rank(....).

rank is an entry point in a C source file ranksort.c,
declared using "void rank(. .. .)".
All source files seemed to compile fine.
How do I call the C rank entry from Fortran using
Hmisc.so?

A second problem is that in the Design library I
have Fortran code such as

  CALL dqrsl1(.....)

When doing library(Design) I get an unknown symbol
dqrsl1_.  I know that R base has LINPACK routines such 
as dqrsl1.

I think I understand from V&R how to load correct
symbols and look in the correct package when using
an individual dyn.load but not one using a central
library.dynam("packagename", options passed to .First.lib).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks -Frank
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