From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Dec 14 16:49:10 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:49:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Linking C/C++ GUI to R.dll
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 Chad.P.Jenness at wellsfargo.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of linking a C/C++ application to the R.dll
> directly.  I have obtained the R source code and compiled it
> successfully.  I have also successfully linked the R.dll directly into
> our application and have made calls successfully into the R.dll that are
> included in the sample rtest.c and in the "Writing R Extensions - The R
> API".
>
> The R functionality that we are interested in embedding into our
> application is the data analysis and graphics.  However, I did not see
> any references to this in the R API section of the documentation.  Is
> this functionality available from our C/C++ application via the R.dll?
> If so, how do we access this functionality?

By reading the section on 'linking GUIs and other front-ends'.  It is not 
in the C-level API.

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[Rd] Linking C/C++ GUI to R.dll
Prof Brian Ripley