[Rcpp-devel] passing function
On 2011-01-26, at 7:38 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
cpp <- '
int n = as<int>(N);
NumericVector numvec(xvec) ;
Function f(fun) ;
for( int i=0; i<n; i++){
numvec = f( numvec ) ;
}
return numvec ;
'
# create a C++ function
funx <- cfunction(signature(N = "integer" , xvec = "numeric", fun = "function" ),
cpp, , Rcpp = TRUE, include = "using namespace Rcpp; ")
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Now for your questions: I see that f is a Function object but what is fun? There is no 'fun' but 'funx' is an R function created by cfunction() [ of the inline package ] containing executable code created by cfunction() from the source code submitted via variable 'cpp'.
I think the question was about the line 'Function f(fun)'. And the answer is that 'fun' is the second argument of the C++ function, and is an SEXP for the R function passed in. (See the 'signature' call in assignment to 'funx'.) So 'Function f(fun)' creates an instance of Rcpp::Function called 'f' out of the 'fun' SEXP. Davor