[R] dyn.load does not work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:01:55 +0000
> From: Helgi Tomasson <helgito at rhi.hi.is>
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> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] dyn.load does not work
> 
> 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"

On all the systems I know of foo.o is an object not a shared library
(and this is R not S-PLUS where dyn.load does load objects).

Try using R SHLIB foo.c to make foo.so and dyn.load that.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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