Calling external files from C in R

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I recently encountered a problem while bundling an old C library into a new R package. The library itself depends on, and includes, an external "dictionary" in plain text format used to construct a large lookup table. The creators of this library of course assume that this dictionary file will always reside in the same directory as the compiled object, and so can always be directly linked. The…

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