I'm in the process of coding a parser (in C) to generate R entities (vectors, lists, etc.) from a text description (different from R). The basic parser works, and now I need to tell it how to create R entities. I need to be able to create character vectors (for unicode strings), integers, floats, unnamed lists, named lists, boolean values, and NA. With the exception of the two types of lists and the character vectors, all the other objects I need to generate are "scalars", so I suppose they will correspond to 1-element vectors in R. I also need to be able to add R entities to both kinds of lists. I've been staring at various official documents (ch 5 of Writing R Extensions, R Internals, Rinternals.h) for this kind of work for some time, but I can't find the constructors for such objects (here I'm using the term "constructor" loosely). I'm even further from finding the C equivalent of "my.list[[ length(my.list) + 1 ]] <- new.thing". Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Kynn
How to generate R objects in C?
2 messages · Kynn Jones, Mathieu Ribatet
This is indeed details in Writing R Extensions. You should have a closer look at sections 5.9.3 and 5.9.4. Look at the pieces of C code, they will help you a lot. cheers, Mathieu Le mercredi 03 juin 2009 ? 00:44 +0200, Kynn Jones a ?crit :
I'm in the process of coding a parser (in C) to generate R entities (vectors, lists, etc.) from a text description (different from R). The basic parser works, and now I need to tell it how to create R entities. I need to be able to create character vectors (for unicode strings), integers, floats, unnamed lists, named lists, boolean values, and NA. With the exception of the two types of lists and the character vectors, all the other objects I need to generate are "scalars", so I suppose they will correspond to 1-element vectors in R. I also need to be able to add R entities to both kinds of lists. I've been staring at various official documents (ch 5 of Writing R Extensions, R Internals, Rinternals.h) for this kind of work for some time, but I can't find the constructors for such objects (here I'm using the term "constructor" loosely). I'm even further from finding the C equivalent of "my.list[[ length(my.list) + 1 ]] <- new.thing". Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Kynn
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