[R-pkg-devel] Linking to a large external library

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 at 14:25, Ben Engbers <ben.engbers using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The official Fedora 36 repository still offers R 4.1.3. Since "rolog"
> requires at least R (≥ 4.2), this package cannot be installed yet.

Not sure why this version is declared. It seems that, if you download
the package and relax the condition to >= 4.1, it works successfully.

> I have no experience with removing the 'default' version and then
> manually replacing it with R version 4.2. For now I'm waiting for R 4.2
> to be released in Fedora 36 ;-(

cc'ing spot.

Iñaki

>
> Ben
>
> P.S. I already send an update request to the Fedora team
>
> Op 10-06-2022 om 13:15 schreef Matthias Gondan:
> > Dear Ben,
> >
> > Not restricted to Windows. rolog is on CRAN, you can install it
> > normally, there's also a nice Vignette with use cases.
> >
> > rologlite is under development, but the API will be similar.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> > Am 10.06.2022 12:30 schrieb Ben Engbers <ben.engbers using gmail.com>:
> >
> >     "rologlite" verwijst naar een .dll file. Ik neem dus aan dat deze
> >     package bedoeld is voor Windows.
> >     Mijn vraag is of "rologlite" ook gebruikt kan worden op Linux? Zo ja,
> >     dan ben ik zeer benieuwd en ga ik kijken hoe ik dat voor mijn
> >     ontwikkelwerkzaamheden kan gebruiken?
> >
> >     Ben Engbers
> >
> >     Op 08-06-2022 om 22:24 schreef matthias-gondan:
> >      > Whenever I add a little feature I have to update the entire
> >     package, and so have its users (currently: 0, but that might change).
> >     Maybe I'll be the first ;-)
> >
> >      > Therefore, I have now written a second package ("rologlite") that
> >     just links to the Swi-Prolog dll, which is much smaller in size than
> >     embedding it). It searches for Swi-Prolog in the path, in the
> >     registry, in the environment, and if all this fails, it checks if
> >     rolog is installed and looks for the swipl dll in the rolog package.
> >      >
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Iñaki Úcar