Le 29/11/12 15:00, Hadley Wickham a écrit :
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, ...)
+1
In my view people should want to "write performance code" not "write C
code" or "write C++ code", and Rcpp is a very good candidate for this.
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
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