[Rcpp-devel] Resolving NativeSymbolInfos from Rcpp

[Davor Cubranic]

On 2010-06-08, at 10:46 PM, Romain Francois wrote:

>>> Reading the information on writing R extensions, it sounds like there
>>> may not be a way to get to the address of an object in another
>>> package's DLL. (In this case, in stats.so.) However, there is a
>>> NativeSymbolInfo for stats:::R_loess_raw, which includes all sorts of
>>> info about the C method. Is there a way that this can be used to get a
>>> function pointer to it from within my code? And if this is too
>>> unportable, is there a cleaner way?
> 
> After some more coffee, I came up with this:
> [...]
> Please expand the part that is actually suppose to call loess_raw and let us know if something useful happens.

That worked like a charm, Romain, thank you so much! (At least on OS X, I only tested it there so far.)

Davor