[Rcpp-devel] RFH: RInside release candidate

[Jarny Choi]

I have just had a chance to try some of the new 'eval' functions and they are great! I haven't tested things extensively yet, but I've tried to replace the existing code using parseEval() to parseEvalNT("try()") and things work nicely and I can now catch the exception. (I'm coding in Qt on a mac.)

It could not have been more timely for me, as I was facing the exact same issue that Theodore was mentioning. So a huge thanks to him and Dirk for putting this patch together.

Regards,
Jarny


On Nov 4, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> We did a bit of work on RInside over the last few weeks and some useful
> things changed -- but we could do with some pre-release checks.  
> 
> New / improved are:
> 
> -- robustness / recovery: the 'eval' functions were by default existing the
>    app if an error occurred [ if interactive mode is off], this can now be
>    address a number of ways [ by flipping interactive mode, and by calling
>    variants of the eval functions, see two new examples ] -- all this is
>    thanks to the initial help by Theodore Lytras. But I fear the docs and
>    new examples are underwhelming.  Would anybody like to poke some more?
> 
> -- better autodetection of R_HOME on Windows, with a possible fallback,
>    though I am not sure that really works yet -- the limited testing I was
>    able to do at work did reveal issues, but also didn't seem perfect as I
>    still set the R_HOME env var. Help here would be appreciated.
> 
> -- and more cmake support for examples again contributed by Peter.
> 
> The full NEWS entry is below.  R-Forge seems broken / stuck as it should have
> caught up to rev267 and variant 0.2.8.3 (as a rc for 0.2.9) but hasn't. So I
> put this at 
> 
>    http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside/RInside_0.2.8.3.tar.gz
> 
> for anybody to fetch.  I would like to release by Monday, or later if need
> be, but some more testing and/or feedback on documentation would be
> appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> News for Package 'RInside'
> 
> Changes in RInside version 0.2.9 (2012-11-xx):
> 
>        • Added note to examples/standard/Makefile.win that R_HOME may
>          need to be set to run the executables - so either export your
>          local value, or re-install RInside from source to have it
>          reflected in the library build of libRinside
> 
>        • On Windows, have RInside use R's get_R_HOME() function to get
>          R_HOME value from registry if not set by user
> 
>        • Applied (modified) patch by Theodore Lytras which lets
>          RInside recover from some parsing errors and makes RInside
>          applications more tolerant of errors
> 
>        • Added non-throwing variants of parseEval() and parseEvalQ()
> 
>        • Modified Qt and Wt examples of density estimation
>          applications to be much more resilient to bad user input
> 
>        • Updated CMake build support for standard, armadillo and eigen
> 
>        • Improved CMake builds of examples/standard, examples/eigen
>          and examples/armadillo by detecting architecture
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com  
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