如何构建外部 C++ 库以与 R/Rcpp 一起使用（例如 Boost）

Question

I can't seem to find anything on the internet which show you how to build and compile a C++ library such that it can be used in R via the Rcpp package. I am missing some steps where the library is somehow linked to R tools

For instance how do you get the boost library working with R or any other such library?

Normal instructions:

https://andres.jaimes.net/718/how-to-install-the-c-boost-libraries-on-windows/ https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#or-build-from-the-command-prompt

Answer 1

This is almost surely a duplicate but I am in-between tasks and cannot search now...

"It's still complicated" but Rcpp 1.0.5 now also ship this arXiv paper I wrote on this as this vignette . In short, you need to differentiate between

• header-only you can ship or include
• small-ish library you include and build
• an external library

The third one is hardest as you now have the problem of getting it to CRAN and your users.