[Rcpp-devel] useDynLib

2011-03-31 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
Dear Rcpp List, I¹ve been looking at some R packages that use libraries and I have figured out that there is a keyword in the NAMESPACE file that I would like to understand. I¹m at a complete loss for what the NAMESPACE file is or how to get help for what goes in it. Has anyone found a resource fo

Re: [Rcpp-devel] useDynLib

2011-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 31 March 2011 at 17:29, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote: | Dear Rcpp List, | | I?ve been looking at some R packages that use libraries and I have figured out | that there is a keyword in the NAMESPACE file that I would like to understand. | I?m at a complete loss for what the NAMESPACE file is or h

Re: [Rcpp-devel] useDynLib

2011-03-31 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
This link has a lot of information in it, but I don't understand much of it because it seems to be written for people who already understand it. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html Under section 1.6: For example, I'm having trouble figuring out the meaning of the following terms and

Re: [Rcpp-devel] useDynLib

2011-03-31 Thread Davor Cubranic
On 31 March 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote: > This link has a lot of information in it, but I don't understand much > of it because it seems to be written for people who already > understand it. You make a very good point here, and I think it's largely true for most of R's documenta

Re: [Rcpp-devel] useDynLib

2011-03-31 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
Thanks for the info about modularity. I'll definitely be wikipedia'ing that. Also, thanks for clarifying the package author thing--I literally was imagining some sort of function that writes something related to packages. In particular with useDynLib, what type of argument(s) go(es) in it? For exam