On 14 October 2015 at 15:12, Allison Irvine wrote:
| I am trying to figure out how to avoid creating a copy of an array in
| c++ to a Rcpp::NumericVector or std::vector in order to use the data in
| an embedded R instance (RInside object). It is clear that one can copy
| an array in C++ to a Rcpp::NumericVector, then assign a variable in the
| embedded R object, for example:
|
|
| double myArray[5] = {1,2,3,4,5};
| Rcpp::NumericVector myNumericVector(5);
| for (int i=0; i<5; i++) {
| myNumericVector[i] = myArray[i];
| }
| RInside R(argc, argv);
| R["x"] = myNumericVector;
|
| However, I would like to avoid having to create a copy of the array. Is
| there a way to assign the "x" variable in the above example using
| pointers to the C++ array "myArray"?
|
| Also, I am interested in doing the inverse of that. Is it possible to
| take the output of the embedded R code called by R.parseEval() and have
| it return the values to a pre-allocated array in c++?
Yes, there are constructors that take, say, an iterator the vector and a
dimension. In general, you do NOT need copies.
Search the list, the Rcpp Gallery and StackOverflow for examples. This all
has been discussed before.
Dirk
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