Rf_errorcall - translate to Pascal

2006/2/16, Hans-Peter <gchappi at gmail.com>:

    [Rf_errorcall is not declared here, would be something like:
     void Rf_errorcall(SEXP, const char *,...)]

... would it be possible to pull the Rf_errorcall
declaration to the error.h file?

error.h doesn't look like a good place as the SEXP type is not known
there. Sorry, I am quite unfluent with this c headers...

Yes, and their names are case-sensitive too.  So it is intentional that 
errorcall is not in R_Ext/Error.h.  Since it is needed for writing 
front-ends and now mentioned in Writing R Extensions it should probably be 
in Rinternals.h.  But note that is basically the only way that a non-core 
programmer is going to be writing code that gets passed 'call' objects.

As a sidenote: in Defn.h are two macrogroups:

 /* Promise Access Macros */
 /* Hashing Macros */

which aren't declared in Rinternals.h. This is different from e.g. the groups:

 /* General Cons Cell Attributes */
 /* Primitive Access Macros */
 ...

This is intentional.  Both Defn.h and Rinternals.h have these in a section 
protected by

#ifdef USE_RINTERNALS
#endif

and that section should not be regarded as public.  There _are_ 
(mis-titled) sections

/* Promise Access Macros */
/* Hashing Macros */

in Rinternals.h, and those are the function equivalents defined for 
external use.

All that is public is what is documented in `Writing R Extensions': other 
things are in the header files but you should not assume that they will 
even be exported in future versions of R.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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