[R] dyn.load does not work

[Torsten Hothorn]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Helgi Tomasson wrote:

> Dear R-people
> 
> Could someone give me a hint why dyn.load does not work
> 
> > system("ls dyntilr.o")
> dyntilr.o
> >
> 
> > dyn.load("dyntilr.o")
> Error in dyn.load(x) : unable to load shared library
> "/home/helgi/dyntilr.o"

is dyntilr.o s shared library? I would expect dyntilr.so to be one. Under
Linux,

$> gcc -c dyntilr.c -o dyntilr.o
$> ld -shared -o dyntilr.so dyntilr.o

should work, or, much more simpler, create a package, put the sources in
./src and say

$> R INSTALL -l my_lib_path my_R_package

Torsten

> 
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> 
> Helgi
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