Hi Dirk, that is also a very good idea! I will look at this, as it would leave out any packaging of third-party libraries into a package.
Best Simon On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Conrad, > > On 3 February 2013 at 12:47, Simon Zehnder wrote: > | I am using the RcppArmadillo package and I need in C++ some optimization > methods. Before I used always the Scythe Statistical Library which had both: > linear algebra and optimization methods. Armadillo has only linear algebra > support. > | > | Now my question: What numerical optimization libraries in C++ do you use, > when working with RcppArmadillo? It should be fast! > > Yan already pointed out that "any" is a good answer as Rcpp etc use the > standard C++ interfaces such as std::vector etc. You can literally use > "whatever". In some case you may need to package it, or provide linkage to > it. That is what Rcpp is about, and the 'Rcpp-extending' vignette has > documentation on how one can write as<>() and wrap() converters for one's > desired external library if it uses specific data types. > > Conrad already noted that there are also add-on libraries that use Armadillo > making RcppArmadillo an easy choice. > > What has not been mentioned yet is that R itself does of course offer > optimization routines, and the Writing R Extension manual talks about how to > use them. So you can also go back to the R API if you want to. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ 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
