Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504150719460.19992@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-15T08:21:10Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: dynamic array output by .C
In-Reply-To: <58618a62050414150165aae64@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Tib wrote:
> from the examples of Writing R Extensions, I see one still has to
> declare the size of arrays by NEW_NUMERIC(n) or
> allocVector(REALSXP,n), how can I extend arrays?
>
> I know this question is a little specific, but it would be a lot
> helpful if anyone can give me a quick question. Thanks
Use lengthgets().
> On 4/14/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Tib wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am building a stochastic simulation model in a C++ shared library
>>> for R. My model will generate a random number of new observations and
>>> also delete some old observations, however, the numbers cannot be
>>> predicted before the computation engine runs. For simplicity, I am
>>> trying to control my programming at the second stage (pure C++ for R).
>>> It seems .C accepts fixed size of arrays as input (also ouput), can I
>>> modify size of array for deleting old and adding new observations in
>>> .C?
>>
>> No, but .Call can.
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