On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
I'm currently working on embedding R into the Apache2 webserver (with some positive results...), but I'm struggling to identify the best way to expose the apache data and functions to R.
A couple of thoughts:
In light of the recent discussion on "S3/S4 classes performance comparson", I'm leaning toward implementing the interface with S3 style classes. I appreciate anyones advice on this.
I JUST found (after roughly 6 months of studying R) Luke Tierney's note on "Finalization and Weak References in R". From the developers page, this note is listed as a "preliminary mechanism", but I scoured CRAN and noticed packages like RODBC and XML are using it. Has this mechanism changed from "preliminary" to "production" yet? For storing pointers in R variables, I've
Yes, but the documentation has not. R itself uses the mechanism for DLLinfo.
The developer.r-project.org site is a mixture of old and new, but certainly worth perusing in the first month of studying R.
been using integer vectors which is what RMySQL does but doesn't seem natural.
You asked elsewhere why RMySQL does not use it, but AFAIK it predates the mechanism. RODBC and XML have only used it recently.
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