Message-ID: <45703789.3090205@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2006-12-01T14:09:13Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: C structures in R
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612011316001.13593@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The short answer is that quite a bit of code, e.g pwilcox and RODBC,
> does things like this. You don't need to pass the pointer back to R,
> but if you do external pointers are designed for this job.
[reads a bit more of 'Writing R Extensions'...]
Right yes, this does look like the tool for the job. I'll try and come
up with a minimal example that duplicates what I'm doing with raw and
pointers, it might be a useful illustration in the documentation.
Barry