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Programming questions are appropriate for R-devel, as it says there. The issue is OS-specific, but we don't see what your Fortran code is. If you send a reproducible example to the R-devel list, people may be able to suggest what the problem is. On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Ingmar Visser wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using an existing Fortran routine that takes a single character string > as argument. The routine echoes the argument that I provide. When working on > OS X 3.9 there seems to be no problem, ie the Fortran routine nicely echoes > my argument. However, I compiled the same package on a PC (using all the > tools provided in the R for windows faq), and the routine only echoes the > first letter of each character string that I pass on to it. > > My questions are: > 1) Is this somehow compiler specific? > 2) Should I explicitly provide the Fortran routine with the length of the > character string? > 3) I am at a loss as to what is happening here, so any hint is welcome (-; > > The call to the Fortran routine is as follows: > > .Fortran("npoptn",as.character(opt),PACKAGE="depmix") > > where opt is a character string such as opt="Iteration limit = 100" -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html