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Starting with its 1.2.0 release, the nloptr package by Jelmer Ypma now exports its C symbols in a way that makes it accessible to other R packages without linking easing the installation across operating systems.
This package illustrates this with an example drawn from the NLopt tutorial.
See the (currently single) file src/nlopt.cpp.
R uses C interfaces. These C interfaces can be exported between
packages. So when the usual library(nloptr) happens,
we now also get a number of C functions registered.
And those are enough to run optimization from C++ as we simply rely on the C interface provided. Look careful at the example code: the objective function and the constraint functions are C functions, and the body of our example invokes C functions from NLopt. This just works.
On the other hand, if we tried to use the NLopt C++ interface which brings with it someinterface code we would require linking to that code (which R cannot easily export across packages using its C interface). So C it is.
This repo builds on, extends, and simplifies an earlier repo by Julien Chiquet to which I contributed a core part of this setup.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
GPL (>= 2)
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