[R] open DLL in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, gyadav at ccilindia.co.in wrote:

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> Hello Sir,
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> I am just wondering that pedump is a command of 'R' because in could not 

It is not, as I stated.

> find in the 'R' help using help.search("pedump"). I am requesting you to 
> narrate as i also have to look into .dll(s). Is there any way to know what 
> are the exported functions and constants and imported functions and 
> constants in a easy way.

Yes, see the R-admin manual, using non-R tools.

> thanks
> -gaurav.
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> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 
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> 01-08-06 11:18 PM
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> qian li <hidorothy1979 at yahoo.com>
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> r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> Re: [R] open DLL in R
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> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, qian li wrote:
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> > I have downloaded a DLL file. I want to look at the contents in the DLL 
> file. How can I do it in R?
> 
> You need a disassembler such as VC++'s DUMPBIN, but looking at compiled 
> code you did not write is not an easy task.  (Or objdump from the MinGW 
> toolset.)
> 
> If only you want to know what entry points it exports, use pedump -e for 
> the pedump.exe in tools.zip (see the R-admin manual).
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> What has this to do with R?
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> >   Thanks,
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> >   QL
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