Message-ID: <4AC673DC.3060503@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2009-10-02T21:42:52Z
From: Jeffrey Horner
Subject: Because it's Friday. was creating environments in package's C code
In-Reply-To: <E04283F5-2542-4FE5-B7EE-A9D1F691C0B4@r-project.org>
Simon Urbanek wrote on 10/01/2009 11:51 AM:
[...]
> I suspect you like reinventing the wheel ;). Your NewInteger is part of
> the R API and is called ScalarInteger(). When you need something,
> chances are that R has it already, so it's worth greping through the
> headers (and sometimes even through the main sources).
I am reminded of what Robert Gentleman said at DSC 2005 during the R/S
round-chair discussion: "Brian Ripley is the only one I know who keeps R
in his frontal lobe."
I can only aspire to such greatness, Simon.
Jeff