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On 29 January 2006 at 20:50, Joseph Wang wrote:
| After a weekend of hacking, I've managed to convince myself that it is doable
| to integrate Quantlib with R through the R-Swig interfaces. I've ported the
Nice one! Just this weekend, I was also wondering about the status of RSWIG
and had sent a ping to Duncan.
| files at OmegaHat to run with the latest CVS of R. Fixed a few bugs in the
| engine and managed to (almost) the swig to generate C++ wrappers and an S
| file.
So what exactly works and what doesn't? You get files generated, compiled,
linked? And these are callable from R?
| The main thing to get basic functionality at this point is to write some lib
| files that allow the wrapping of STL templates. I've already written a basic
| file that identifies vectors as templates, and the next thing to do is to
| write the wrappers that do string translations.
Are you aware of Dominick's RCpp package on CRAN that eases the R / C++
interface considerably?
| So what can I do to most effectively at getting this functionality out?
I'm sure we'll find some webspace to stick interim results on.
Dirk
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