how to get a primitive function object
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
External pointers are the standard way to do that. You don't need to worry about reference counting, R's garbage collector will call a finalizer when it doesn't need the object any more. I think the usual example of this is the RODBC package, which maintains database connections that way. If it and the Writing R Extensions manual aren't enough docs for you, you should probably move the question to the R-devel list: this is pretty technical for R-help. Duncan Murdoch
Thanks. I've read all the manuals and my situation is more complicated than the external ptrs and finalizers can handle. I'll probe the R-devel list and see what I can get.
Yi