I'm not sure I'd go quite this far in ragging on the C API. For someone who wants to write plain-vanilla C code (without C++) working on vectors and matrices, it really seems acceptable to me. If someone doesn't have at least some basic technical ability, they shouldn't be writing C or C++ code, anyway.
However, for more advanced use of the API and C++, I'm completely with you. I'll look this over, Hadley, once things settle down. Thanks for your efforts on this! Jay On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is _possible_ to write C or Fortran code for use in R, but it will > be painful; Rcpp provides a clean, approachable API that lets you > write high-performance code, insulated from R's arcane C API. > -- John W. Emerson (Jay) Associate Professor of Statistics, Adjunct, and Acting Director of Graduate Studies Department of Statistics Yale University http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay
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