[Rcpp-devel] Cannot find header file R.h in Rcpp c++ package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi again,

On 12 April 2012 at 17:06, Mingyu Tang wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| Thanks for your reply.
| I am new hand on this and got a little confused.
| So instead of using 'g++' , I should use 'R CMD SHLIB' to compile my c++ code, right?

That makes some things easier, yes.
 
| Could you complete the command in the command line? For example, let's say, my c++ file is 'example.cpp'. Shall I input  'R CMD SHLIB example.cpp' ? which flag shall I use to indicate where the Rcpp package is?
| 
| Thank you very much.

PLease read the Rcpp-FAQ, along with the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.  If
you're really lost try some slidedecks from some of my presentations.

We really try to provide ample documentation at all levels.

Dirk

| 
| Mingyu
| 
| On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| > 
| > Hi,
| > 
| > Thanks for posting here.
| > 
| > On 12 April 2012 at 11:40, Mingyu Tang wrote:
| > | Hi,
| > | 
| > | I am trying to use the Rcpp and RInside package in C++ on my Macbook. 
| > | When I compile the examples given on the website, the compiler returns that
| > | "R.h: No such file or directory". And also a lot of other header files cannot
| > | be found. And I searched in the package manually, and I did not find this R.h
| > | file as well. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here?
| > | 
| > | I downloaded Rcpp_0.9.10.tar package from CRAN. 
| > | I used the following command to compile:
| > | g++ -I /Users/alectang8888/Downloads/Rcpp/include example.cpp -o example
| > 
| > Rcpp is an R extension package.  R packages have a very specific way of being
| > built which is explained in detail in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual that
| > comes with R.  In short, you want 'R CMD SHLIB ...' or 'R CMD COMPILE ...'
| > most of the time.
| > 
| > If you do want to do it by hand using g++, you have to add -I flags for R as
| > well as Rcpp does not exist outside of R. 
| > 
| > See the Rcpp-FAQ vignette for more details.
| > 
| > Dirk
| > 
| > | 
| > | Thank you in advance.
| > | 
| > | regards,
| > | 
| > | --
| > | ----------------------------------
| > | Mingyu Tang
| > | PhD candidate,
| > | Department of Statistics,
| > | Carnegie Mellon University
| > | Pittsburgh, PA 15213
| > | 
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