[R] a very basic question: calling c function from R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/03/2009 7:23 PM, Wang Chun wrote:
> Dear R users,
> 
> I want to call C function from R. I follow the following instruction using the example of foo.c
> http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/rc/
> 
> I save the foo.c in my current directory. Is that right? After I enter the command R CMD SHLIB foo.c, I get the following message
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> Error: unexpected symbol in "R cmd"
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> Any suggestion is appreciated.

It looks as though you did that within R.  The R CMD SHLIB command is a 
shell command, run outside of R.

Duncan Murdoch