> 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.
In my defence, I did also write a chapter on the C API: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/c-interface, and I think arcane is the right word to describe it! There's a lot of historical baggage in the API, and most things are not named the same way as in R (eg. real instead of numeric, VECSXP vs LISTSXP, namesgets to _set_ names, ...) > I'll look this over, Hadley, once things settle down. Thanks for your > efforts on this! You're welcome, and any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Hadley -- RStudio / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
