[R] loading multiple C files to R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Utsav Boobna wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am willing to load multiple C files to R, which
> are inter-dependent (functions used in one may be
> defined in other). What I was trying is to first
> compile all of them separately (using R CMD SHLIB ...)
> and then load them one by one (using dyn.load("...")
> ), but  it doesnt work (which seems to be obvious).
> During loading, it was unable to recognize the
> functions declared in already loaded file.
> 
> Please help.
> Is there any documentation available on this topic,
> other than "Writing R extensions"?

Which is sufficient, as it tells you

  This accepts as arguments a list of files which
  must be object files (with extension @file{.o}) or C, C++, or FORTRAN
  sources (with extensions @file{.c}, @file{.cc} or @file{.cpp} or
  @file{.C}, and @file{.f}, respectively).  See @kbd{R CMD SHLIB --help},
  or the on-line help for @code{SHLIB}, for usage information. 

Did you not notice `a list of files'?  You should be calling R CDM SHLIB 
only once.

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