title: Can I load a third-party .dll in R?
body: <p>I am running Windows 7, and I know the DLL was built using Visual Studio C++ 2010. Since I don't have the source code I can't build it on-the-fly in R when creating a package (NAMESPACE). <strong>At this stage, I don't need to create a package</strong>, I just want to load the library in R using <code>dyn.load()</code>. Since it is a dll I suppose it is portable to any client program, but I would just make sure, because I know that it was not compiled using <code>GNU gcc</code>.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I want to call all the functions that the dll deploys. </p>