Hi Romain,
On 16 August 2013 at 19:24, Romain Francois wrote:
| Le 14/08/13 16:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel a ?crit :
| >
| >
| > On 14 August 2013 at 15:57, Matteo Fasiolo wrote:
| > | thank you very much for your replies. In the end a named vector is
| > | enough for my purpose:
| > |
| > | cppFunction(
| > | '
| > | NumericVector myVett(NumericVector x = NumericVector::create(0) )
| > | {
| > | if(x.size() == 0) x = NumericVector::create(_["a"] = 1.0, _["b"] = 2.0);
| > | return x;
| > | }
| > | '
| > | )
| >
| > You don't even need the assignment in the function definition:
| >
| > R> cppFunction("NumericVector matteo(NumericVector x) { if (x.size()==0) x = NumericVector(4); return(x); }")
| > R> matteo(vector())
| > [1] 0 0 0 0
| > R> matteo(1:3)
| > [1] 1 2 3
| > R>
| >
| > Dirk
|
| This might not stay valid code when we put more control for dispatch,
| argument recognition etc.
|
| Some of that is in place with Rcpp::is, the rest will follow. We might
| lose things like this, but we will gain more useful things instead.
| And we never said passing 0 arguments to a function needing one works,
| so it is not a documented feature.
I am missing something here.