thanks a lot for your swift and accurate answer. Very much appreciated ! so indeed RInside is what I need exactly as my problem was indeed to embed R into another software and not just to wrap a C++ library to be used in R.
Cheers, David On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > David, > > On 27 February 2017 at 11:19, David Bellot wrote: > | I would like to know the status of the RInside project. In the Subversion > | repository on R-Forge, the description file says the version is 0.2.10.1 > ( > > We, not unlike many other people, have been a little sloppy in closing the > OLD and ABANDONED svn repository when moving to GitHub. > > You should look at CRAN for current and meaningful hints. Start at > > https://cloud.r-project.org/package=RInside # CDN, mirrored > https://cran.r-project.org/package=RInside # Vienna, main host > > where the DESCRIPTION file with its BugReports URL points to GitHub: > > R> packageDescription("RInside")[["BugReports"]] > [1] "https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside/issues"; > R> > > It is true that my page at > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside.html > > also points at the SVN (which I'll fix now) but it _also_ contains a more > current ChangeLog subset. > > Google points me (even in no-cookie, anon mode) to GitHub too for I search > for 'RInside source code'. GitHub is second, the SVN in not in the > top-ten. > > | https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/ > DESCRIPTION?view=markup&root= > | rinside) and here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside/ the latest > version > | is 0.2.11 > | But in both cases, the code is at least 3 to 5 years old. > > RInside uses Rcpp to talk R, making use of the _embedding API_ of R. > > As R is *very* good at maintaining its interfaces, we have not needed many > changes for RInside. It. Just. Works. > > | I would like to use it to embed R in a software I'm writing and give the > users > | the possibility to write their "plugins" to my software in R. So far my > users > | can use Python to do that (thanks to Boost.Python). The problem is as > follow: > | the C++ code will instantiate and call R objects and the R objects > should be > | able to access other C++ objects and call C++ functions too. The C++ > objects > | cannot be copied to R. In Boost.Python, it happily works, so now I want > to add > | support for R too. > | > | So has this project been abandonned ? Is there anything else than > RInside I > | should use ? > > It is alive and well. Just this month I committed a rather nice new > user-contributed example. > > | Maybe Rcpp has everything to do that now and RInside is not needed > anymore ? > > You misunderstand how one embed R. You very much want RInside, and it will > work just fine for your use case -- which is what it was made for. > > Cheers, Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org >
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