Thanks to all for your excellent suggestions. I think will I proceed working through the Stroustrup book. He has a section on comparing C with C++ and one on working with legacy C code that may prove helpful. I also have a "C for Dummies" (something like that, I don't have it right next to me) that I have also been reading. A couple of follow-up questions:
1. As I understand it, if I just wanted to distribute compiled code, I could use whatever extended C or C++ libraries that I wanted to use, however, since R is open source and people need to be able to compile things themselves, I imagine I would get into trouble (figuratively) using, say, the C++ STL. Would I need to distribute these files as well? For example, iostream instead of stdio.h. Or, should I just not use those? 2. For those of you who develop C on Windows (probably a small bunch!), what is your preferred development environment? I have the free Borland Turbo C++ and Visual C++ 6.0 (I knew enough to stay away from .NET). I tried to install the C++ module for Eclipse and, for me at least, it was a nightmare. I am not UNIX or DOS savvy and setting path variables and the like just made things too complicated. 3. Lastly, is there a C or C++ community similar to R that I could address questions relating to those languages to? I don't want to abuse the R list as I learn. Thanks, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
