[Rcpp-devel] How to access fields and methods of a RefClass from C++?

[Anwar Ludin]

Yes that did it...thanks a lot Dirk!

On 05/29/2013 01:49 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 28 May 2013 at 23:14, Anwar Ludin wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I have a Reference class defined in R that I am passing as a parameter
> | to a C++ class using Rcpp. I am trying to access the fields of the
> | Reference class from C++ and I'm not sure how to do this.
>
> Well for starters your reference class object had no field price so that
> makes extracting it hard...
>
> But in essence:  a) reference classes are S4 objects, and as b) you can see
> from str() and unclass(), they contain an environment you can access. So try
> this modification of your code:
>
>
> library(Rcpp)
> library(methods)
>
> Instrument <-setRefClass(
>     Class="Instrument",
>     fields=list("id"="character", "description"="character")
> )
> Instrument$accessors(c("id", "description"))
>
> instrument <- Instrument$new(id="AAPL", description="Apple")
>
> cat("Instrument:\n")
> print(instrument)
> #print(str(instrument))
> cat("\n\nInstrument unclassed:\n")
> print(unclass(instrument))
> cat("\n\nInstrument .xData env.:\n")
> print(ls(instrument at .xData))
>
> cppFunction('
> std::string getId(S4 obj) {
>      // get the environment
>      Environment e = obj.slot(".xData");
>      // extract field
>      std::string txt = as<std::string>(e["id"]);
>      // return it
>      return txt;
> }')
>
> cat("\n\nId extracted from instrument:\n")
> print(getId(instrument))
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,  Dirk
>