Hey.I am wondering if there's some general guidance on what the 'right' options
are to cleanly handle character arguments passed from R to Rcpp.It is all
rather simple: let's say I have a human-readable argument vector c("tree",
"herb", "shrub") [It could also be a factor in R], which I can send to an Rcpp
function along with other arguments for evaluation.What would be the cleanest
way to define those arguments (plant types) in R to then have as little trouble
sending them over to Rcpp for use in cases like if() statements?The use of
enums comes to mind:// beginningoffileenum class var_type
{ flower, tree };RCPP_EXPOSED_ENUM_NODECL(var_type)//
[[Rcpp::export]]int charHandle1(var_type text_arg = var_type::flower)
{ if(text_arg == var_type::flower) { Rcout <<
static_cast<int>(text_arg) << " says '0 (flower)'.\n"; } else
if(text_arg == var_type::tree) { Rcout <<
static_cast<int>(text_arg) << " says '1
(tree)'.\n"; } return 0;}// endoffileThis however, doesn't seem to
work. I understand R would have to know the var_type for it to work. Then I can
do it simply by comparing the const char * argument. This will work, but the
strcmp() comparison isn't very straightforward for someone who doesn't know C++
(and perhaps for some other reasons).// [[Rcpp::export]]int charHandle2(const
char* text_arg = "flower") { if(strcmp(text_arg, "flower") == 0)
{ Rcout << text_arg << " says 'flower'.\n"; }
else if(strcmp(text_arg, "tree") == 0) { Rcout <<
text_arg << " says 'tree'.\n"; } return 0;}I am looking for
some good practice guidance on how to handle this safely and legibly to avoid
sending people to function definitions. An argument could be made, for
instance, that a list of plant type arguments could be stored as factor in R
and then sent and used in some way in Rcpp. What other options are there? To my
best knowledge, support for enums is limited - I glanced over the vignettes and
couldn't find any significant mention of enums (or factors, really), so I guess
some other way of handling such cases should be taken. Has anyone dealt with
such cases and has recommendations?Regards,Angelo (Greetings from Genoa)_______________________________________________
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