[Rcpp-devel] Question concerning use of Raster in C vi Rcpp plugin and inline

On 17 November 2010 at 10:44, Rainer M Krug wrote:
| On 11/17/2010 10:26 AM, Romain Francois wrote:
| > Ultimately, making a package is the best action.
| 
| True - But I haven't looked at that option yet, as I was happy with
| sourcing the code, but I will for my next project.

Are you sure you haven't? ;-)   

Not for this project - but that package in which we are co-authors
definitely is doing that.

To clarify:
Up to now, the whole simulation (of which the the code discussed here is
s small part) was purely R, as it worked fine and was relatively easy to
maintain.
Now the simulation is growing, and the need for speed becomes more
evident. So I am looking into the coding sections in C++ and to use
inline or Rcpp. When the C++ code is working, and before the simulations
can run on a hpc cluster (I don't suppose gcc is installed on the
nodes), I have to compile it and the idea of a package, also in relation
to version control, is really appealing. But that is the next step.

Don't worry - I haven't forgotten earthmovdist and I will use the code
there as a blueprint for wrapping the C++ code.

You and I are co-authors of the earthmovdist package on R-Forge which is just
that: a small package with Rcpp around a single file you once for help with
in wrapping to C++.  Feel free to take it as a stanza.

https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/earthmovdist/

Cheers,

Rainer

Dirk