On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ideally I'd like rpy2 to map "arg_name" (in Python code) to either >>> "arg_name" or "arg.name" (when talking to R) as appropriate for >>> the function concerned, but raise an error if both possibilities are >>> defined. That way I continue to use the simple substitution when >>> writing R calls, and only have to worry about these very rare corner >>> cases when due to ambiguity the naive way should raise an exception. >>> I don't know enough about R's introspection to say if this idea is >>> realistic or not. > > The thread was useful, and lead to improvements. > > rpy2-2.1dev now has a sort-of-cached conversion > mechanism (minimizing the hit of performance that converting at each call > would have). Moreover the caching is safe, as it will throw an exception in > the function has a signature that cannot be translated safely. > > http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-dev/html/robjects.html#functions
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