On 29 July 2015 at 14:21, Nathan Kurz wrote: | > On 29 July 2015 at 15:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > All this is becoming a wee bit obscure. The focus of the list is to help | > people use Rcpp, not to navigate constraints built into the R system. | | <genuine> | Yes, but for many users (well, at least RGuy and me) the impetus for | using Rcpp is to to improve performance on larger datasets. Since R | is relatively weak in memory management, avoiding large unnecessary | copies by using Rcpp is frequently the best way to do this. | </genuine>
I know. But then it is best to put cards on the table at the outset -- and hear about XPtr -- then to putz around with adding & or not. This isn;t pure C++. We interface R through a C interface that was defined a long time ago and is pure C. | <joking> | Really, your misfortune was creating such a generally useful tool that | solves other people's problems. If you'd thought ahead and designed | it to be less flexible, you wouldn't have people asking all these | uncomfortable questions about how to modify in place. | </joking> I know that too and suffer^Henjoy it daily :) 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
