On 3 January 2015 at 21:22, Fg Nu wrote: | I recently asked a question about Rcpp Attributes subsuming the | functionality of the inline package here: | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27744383/is-the-inline-package-redundant-yet-for-rcpp | Dirk confirmed that Rcpp Attributes are fully functional vis-a-vis the | inline package.
That may not be exactly what I said. The gist of it is: "Use Attributes". There is no good reason to use inline, besides re-running older examples. [ It so happened that the book went to press when Attributes had just emerged and is therefore still full of inline examples. Everything else we did for documentation since then -- notably the Rcpp Gallery is full of use case for Attributes, as it should be. ] | As a follow on question, I wanted to know when, if ever, Rcpp | Attributes can fully replace the use of Rcpp Modules. I am aware that | Rcpp Attributes can be used to export standalone functions, but as | mentioned in the Rcpp Modules vignette | (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/vignettes/Rcpp-modules.pdf): | | "[...] but read on for Rcpp modules which contains to provide features | not covered by Rcpp attributes, particularly when it comes to binding | entire C++ classes and more." | | it cannot export entire class definitions. Is this planned | functionality? What are the challenges to implementing this using | Attributes? What are some of the other things that Modules can do that | Attributes cannot? Attributes can be used with Modules. Just place your Modules code in a file and sourceCpp() it. Will Attributes and inline overlap, Modules is a little different and can be used with either. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
