Hi again, I found what I was looking for, namely the function Rcpp.package.skeleton.
Thanks, Venelin On 24 Apr 2014, at 18:06, Mitov Venelin <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, ‘loaded’ was the right term to use here. I’m not an expert in R- or > Rcpp-packaging. I guess that this is something frequently done, so is there a > way to do what I want, namely, create a shared library from my C++ file, wrap > it into an R-package and install it in my current R-installation with a short > R-script? > > Thanks both of you for answering. > > Best, > Venelin > > On 24 Apr 2014, at 17:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 24 April 2014 at 17:47, Mitov Venelin wrote: >> | Hello, >> | >> | I’m using sourceCpp to build a shared library from a C++ file on a linux >> server. This shared library has to be linked by many R-processes, so it >> would be a serious waste if one would rebuild/relink the library from source >> in each of these processes. On a Windows machine I can find the library in a >> temporary directory, copy it together with its corresponding R-linking file >> in the R-project directory and change the directory-path in the R-linking >> file to the project-directory. On the linux server I’m using, however, the >> temporary directory seems to be deleted after the build has finished. >> | It would be nice, if one could specify an output directory during the call >> to sourceCpp, but I didn’t find an argument about that in the sourceCpp >> documentation. Is there a way to do it? >> >> >> When you say "has to be linked by many R proceses" you probably mean "needs >> to be loaded by many R processes" >> >> R offers the package system for this, and Rcpp has always encouraged you to >> created packages. This is no different and not a job for sourceCpp(). >> >> Dirk >> >> -- >> Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
