[Rcpp-devel] data.frame from R to C++?

Hi Dirk,

Thanks very much for your example. From this example I learned how to passing data back and forth between R and C++.
The example is R code and uses piece of C++ code in side R program.
Well, it's better if you put this example(by only making slight changes to make R embeded in C++) inside package RInside.

Accessing data by column name is the feature I ( and other people) usually want.
However, is there a way to access the data Frame by row number?

Regards.

Dsun
On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

Ok, I now committed a slightly nice example to RcppExamples, a package I
should revamp to contain more examples.  In there, we now receive a
data.frame, operate on each column, create a new data and return old and new.

The core of the code (inside the try/catch protection) is

      // construct the data.frame object
      Rcpp::DataFrame DF = Rcpp::DataFrame(Dsexp);

      // and access each column by name
      Rcpp::IntegerVector a = DF["a"];
      Rcpp::CharacterVector b = DF["b"];
      Rcpp::DateVector c = DF["c"];

      // do something
      a[2] = 42;
      b[1] = "foo";
      c[0] = c[0] + 7;                      // move up a week

      // create a new data frame
      Rcpp::DataFrame NDF =
	  Rcpp::DataFrame::create(Rcpp::Named("a")=a,
				  Rcpp::Named("b")=b,
				  Rcpp::Named("c")=c);

      // and return old and new in list
      return(Rcpp::List::create(Rcpp::Named("origDataFrame")=DF,
				Rcpp::Named("newDataFrame")=NDF));


Dirk
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