Interfacing Octave to R

[Paul Koufalas]

Hi all,

I've tried to compile the code written and tested by Duncan Temple Lang 
and John W Eaton for interfacing Octave to R. They wrote and tested this 
several years ago with Octave 2.0.x.

I am using Octave 2.1.64 and R 1.5.1 on a hard disk install of Knoppix 
3.6. I don't know R very well at all, and want to tap into it via Octave 
if possible.

But the indifferent silicon has defeated me, can anybody offer any 
advice? I'm no C/C++ programmer.

I changed Duncan's -DUSE_R to -DUSE_RINTERNALS after searching through 
#defines in Rdefines.h and Rinternals.h. Leaving -DUSE_R results in a 
similar error, but the macro R_CHAR isn't expanded.

address@hidden:~/ROctave/src# make

(CXX=g++ ; export CXX ; /usr/bin/mkoctfile -o libConverters.so  -I. 
-I/usr/include/octave-2.1.64 -I/usr/lib/R/include -v -D_R_=1 
-DUSE_RINTERNALS=1 -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR   Converters.cc )

g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.64 
-I/usr/include/octave-2.1.64/octave -mieee-fp -O2 -I. 
-I/usr/include/octave-2.1.64 -I/usr/lib/R/include -D_R_=1 
-DUSE_RINTERNALS=1 Converters.cc -o Converters.o

Converters.cc: In function `octave_value toOctaveValue(SEXPREC*)':
Converters.cc:98: error: no match for 'operator[]' in 'm[((*((names + 
(+(i *
  4))) + 24)) + 24)]'

make: *** [libConverters.so] Error 1



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