Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp advocacy question -- build environment

2012-12-09 Thread Hadley Wickham
> On 9 December 2012 at 10:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | Rgui.bat, R.bat and Rcmd.bat in the batchfiles distribution > | automatically locate R, Rtools and temporarily set all environment > | variables and modify your path appropriately each time you call R so > | the whole process is just inst

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp::List lost attributes after updating elements

2012-12-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 December 2012 at 14:44, Jiqiang Guo wrote: | Well, those are good points.  But I just do not know the size of my list a | priori, so I have to grow it along the way.  It might not be optimal, but I | suppose as you said it is just suboptimal (i.e., not that bad).  Sometimes you can change yo

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp::List lost attributes after updating elements

2012-12-09 Thread Jiqiang Guo
Well, those are good points. But I just do not know the size of my list a priori, so I have to grow it along the way. It might not be optimal, but I suppose as you said it is just suboptimal (i.e., not that bad). Thanks, Jiqiang On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp::List lost attributes after updating elements

2012-12-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 December 2012 at 14:07, Jiqiang Guo wrote: | Note in the above, the printout for the second does not print any attribute as | for the first function.  Hm. That it not desirable so maybe we can do better, but you should also note that you are using the list type in a suboptimal way by growing

[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp::List lost attributes after updating elements

2012-12-09 Thread Jiqiang Guo
Hi, For a Rcpp::List object, the attributes got lost say if I add another element to the list. I am not sure this is supposed to be, but it's not in R. The following is some code to demonstrate that. > library(Rcpp) > src <- ' + #include + // [[Rcpp::export]] + SEXP crtlist() { + Rcpp::List

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp advocacy question -- build environment

2012-12-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 December 2012 at 10:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Rgui.bat, R.bat and Rcmd.bat in the batchfiles distribution | automatically locate R, Rtools and temporarily set all environment | variables and modify your path appropriately each time you call R so | the whole process is just install R, in

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp advocacy question -- build environment

2012-12-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Christian Gunning wrote: > Advice for introducing students to Rcpp: > > I'm TAing for a statistical programming class next semester, and I'm > talking to the instructor about including Rcpp examples -- sourceCpp() > makes this very easy to sell! > > The question is

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Sparse matrices with RcppArmadillo

2012-12-09 Thread Romain Francois
Thanks for the valuable information. I will look into it more seriously at some point when I have some more time. Romain Le 09/12/12 14:40, c s a écrit : Hi Romain & Doug, Two points to note: (1) When poking around internal Armadillo pointers and arrays for sparse matrices, please take int

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Sparse matrices with RcppArmadillo

2012-12-09 Thread c s
Hi Romain & Doug, Two points to note: (1) When poking around internal Armadillo pointers and arrays for sparse matrices, please take into account that the col_ptrs array is slightly longer than specified by the Compressed Sparse Column (CSC) format. However, this should not cause any problems wh

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp internal benchmark tool

2012-12-09 Thread Christian Gunning
> | I haven't seen any discussion on this in a while. Is this something > | that warrants discussion, or something to keep in mind for later? > | I'd prefer such a package to depend on RcppArmadillo so that my > | implementation of sample() can be easily included. Are there > | downsides to this?