I mentioned the .External interface in my last message. When I heard the name, it may have been a joke but I didn't realize that. Looking through the source code it seems that there are only calls to .Internal. I had thought perhaps that .External was a version of .Internal that could be used with dynamically loaded code. Am I talking about something that doesn't exist yet and is just in the planning stages? (I've got to start paying closer attention in the R-core meetings.) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
.External == .Internal ?
2 messages · Douglas Bates, Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Douglas Bates wrote:
I mentioned the .External interface in my last message. When I heard the name, it may have been a joke but I didn't realize that. Looking through the source code it seems that there are only calls to .Internal. I had thought perhaps that .External was a version of .Internal that could be used with dynamically loaded code. Am I talking about something that doesn't exist yet and is just in the planning stages? (I've got to start paying closer attention in the R-core meetings.)
No, it's there in R0.64, it just hasn't been used for anything yet. The code was sent in to R-devel a few months ago and I added it a few weeks ago. The idea is exactly to be able to call dynamically loaded routines in a similar way to .Internal. -thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._