I think it is worth asking Martin Maechler if he could expose more SuiteSparse functionality through the Matrix package.
Martyn On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 15:06 +0100, Simon Barthelmé wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > Thanks for your suggestion - I had thought of doing that but it requires > tracking the versions of SuiteSparse used by Matrix, which means extra > maintenance work. OTOH maybe updates are rare enough that it's not worth > worrying about. It'd be nice if Matrix could expose more of SuiteSparse, > though, I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs that stuff. > > Best > > Simon > > > Le 17/01/2018 à 13:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > On 17 January 2018 at 13:10, Simon Barthelmé wrote: > > > I'm trying to use some CHOLMOD functionality inside an R package > > > (specifically, sparse Cholesky updates/downdates). There's an > > > CHOLMOD/Eigen interface for that, but unfortunately the header I need is > > > not shipped as part of either the Matrix package or the Rcpp package. > > > The file is cholmod_modify.h, and it does appear in the src/ directory > > > of the Matrix package, but not in the include/ directory. > > > > > > If I include it by hand I risk version conflicts, because the rest of > > > CHOLMOD is provided by the Matrix package via RcppEigen. What's the > > > clean way of handling that? Thanks for your input! > > > > I know "some" (eg rstan) have completemented the BH package with local > > headers when BH was missing what they needed (as BH grew, I think we by now > > added all they need). So you could just do that, being careful to stick > > with > > the same version. > > > > Or would Yixuan's RSpectra help? > > https://cran.r-project.org/package=RSpectra > > > > Dirk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
