The Rf_length(dataframe) will provide the length of row names . So it
should be checked first. I found one edge case now
My dataframe has 0 rows and 0 columns
int num_rows = Rf_length(VECTOR_ELT(dataframe, 0)); ========> returns 1
,in stead of 0 . Not sure why.
Thanks
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I think it is actually better to check the length of the row names. In
> case the data frame has zero columns. (FIXME, of course.)
>
> Gabor
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Murray Stokely <mur...@stokely.org>wrote:
>
>> The simplest case would be:
>>
>> int num_rows = Rf_length(VECTOR_ELT(dataframe, 0));
>> int num_columns = Rf_length(dataframe);
>>
>> There may be edge cases for which this doesn't work; would need to
>> look into how the dim primitive is implemented to be sure.
>>
>> - Murray
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Sandip Nandi <sanna...@umail.iu.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi ,
>> >
>> > Is there any C API to the R API nrow of dataframe ?
>> >
>> > x<- data.frame()
>> > n<- nrow(x)
>> > print(n)
>> > 0
>> >
>> >
>> > Example :
>> > My C function which deals with data frame looks like and I don't to send
>> > the number of rows of data frame .I want to detect it from the function
>> > itself, my function take data frame as argument and do some on it. I
>> want
>> > API equivalent to nrow. I tried Rf_nrows,Rf_ncols . No much help.
>> >
>> > SEXP writeRR(SEXP dataframe) {
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> > Any help is very appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sandip
>> >
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