Message-ID: <17776.31182.338482.509477@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2006-12-01T18:51:58Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: C structures in R
In-Reply-To: <45703789.3090205@lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>>> "BaRow" == Barry Rowlingson <B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>>> on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:09:13 +0000 writes:
BaRow> 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.
BaRow> [reads a bit more of 'Writing R Extensions'...]
BaRow> Right yes, this does look like the tool for the
BaRow> job. I'll try and come up with a minimal example that
BaRow> duplicates what I'm doing with raw and pointers, it
BaRow> might be a useful illustration in the documentation.
Yes, indeed. I've wanted to have a small well documented
example on using external pointers more than once.
And if it would end up to be too large for "Writing R Ext..",
you could put it at least on the R-Wiki.
Thanks in advance!
Martin