Message-ID: <343504DC-4112-4E6C-B695-BDF1999D033C@stat.harvard.edu>
Date: 2005-12-12T21:20:45Z
From: Byron Ellis
Subject: external pointers
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512120812060.4551@gannet.stats>
There's also Luke's own site, in particular http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/
~luke/R/weakfinex.html
On Dec 12, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Roger Bivand wrote:
>
>>> Where would be best to read about externalptr? I'm having trouble
>>> finding material in the manuals or the site-search.
>>>
>>> And would I need to use all the .Call machinery and C headers and
>>> SEXP
>>> etc in order to handle externalptr objects?
>>
>> One package using externalptr is rgdal - Tim Keitt wrote the
>> bindings to
>> the external GDAL library for reading raster images to first return a
>> pointer to a dataset (on disk) opened by GDAL, then to use the
>> object to
>> retrieve (parts of) the data. Most of the .Call/SEXP machinery is
>> there
>> (for the C++ case, GDAL is C++, so GDAL manages its own memory for
>> its
>> objects). The package also uses S4 classes, which may be overkill
>> for your
>> purposes.
>
> RODBC is another, somewhat simpler, one.
>
> There is documentation on developer.r-project.org, but my
> recollection is
> that is was not up to date (and in particular not re finalizers).
> On my
> TODO list is to add end-user documentation to `Writing R Extensions'.
>
> --
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