rdyncall: Improved Foreign Function Interface and Dynamic Bindings to C Libraries

Provides a cross-platform framework for dynamic binding of C libraries using a flexible Foreign Function Interface (FFI). The FFI supports almost all fundamental C types, multiple calling conventions, symbolic access to foreign C struct/union data types and wrapping of R functions as C callback function pointers. Dynamic bindings to shared C libraries are data-driven by cross-platform binding specifications using a compact plain text format; the package includes a 'DynPort' binding specification for 'SDL3' generated from current headers with 'porter'. The package includes a variety of technology demos and OS-specific notes for installation of shared libraries. For the underlying methods and bundled 'DynCall' libraries, see Adler (2012) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2012-004> and Adler and Philipp (2008) <https://dyncall.org>.

Version: 0.10.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.0.0)
Suggests: Rtinycc, tinytest
Published: 2026-07-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rdyncall
Author: Daniel Adler [aut, cph], Hongyuan Jia [aut, cre, cph], Tassilo Philipp [ctb, cph], Olivier Chafik [ctb, cph]
Maintainer: Hongyuan Jia <hongyuanjia at cqust.edu.cn>
BugReports: https://github.com/hongyuanjia/rdyncall/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright: see file COPYRIGHTS
URL: https://github.com/hongyuanjia/rdyncall, https://dyncall.org
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rdyncall results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rdyncall.html , rdyncall.pdf

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Package source: rdyncall_0.10.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rdyncall_0.10.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rdyncall_0.10.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rdyncall_0.10.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rdyncall_0.10.0.tgz
Old sources: rdyncall archive

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