[R] symbol.C is now deprecated?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Dec 2 14:14:02 CET 2006


On 12/2/2006 4:04 AM, Wee-Jin Goh wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have a function that I wrote in C to be called in R. I've done that  
> using symbol.C, which is the method I came across on the internet.
> 
> Now that it's supposed to be deprecated and can be removed in the  
> next version of R (!!), what up-to-date method that replaces symbol.C?

You don't need it at all.  Just give the entry point name directly in 
you .C() calls.  This is documented in the Writing R Extensions manual, 
with examples.

Duncan Murdoch




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