This is known, documented / has been discussed before, and hard to change now
given that 100 CRAN packages depend on RcppArmadillo and its existing interface.
You could write your own converter to SEXP and use that.
Dirk
On 3 December 2014 at 11:59, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
| 1. This returns a matrix rather than a vector:
|
| -- start of file teste.cpp ---
| #include <RcppArmadillo.h>
| // [[Rcpp::depends(RcppArmadillo)]]
|
| using namespace arma;
| using namespace Rcpp;
|
| // [[Rcpp::export]]
| NumericVector teste(const vec& x) {
| vec v = x.subvec(1, 2); // x
| return wrap(v); // x
| }
| /*** R
| teste(1:4)
| */
| --- end of file teste.cpp ---
|
| Now run in R:
|
| > sourceCpp("teste.cpp", rebuild = TRUE)
|
| > teste(1:4)
| [,1]
| [1,] 2
| [2,] 3
|
|
| 2. If we replace the lines marked // x with
|
| return wrap(x.subvec(1, 2));
|
| then it fails with a compiler error.
|
| error: cannot convert 'const arma::subview_col<double>' to 'SEXP' in
| initialization
|
|
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