[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp/C++ serialization of R objects?

[Romain Francois]

Le 29/10/2013 16:24, Rodney Sparapani a écrit :
> Hi Gang:
>
> I have been through the docs, and if this is answered, then I missed
> it.  Is there a recommended way to serialize an R object with Rcpp?

Not at the moment. It is pretty easy though to make an R call to saveRDS 
using Function ...

Environment base = Environment::base_namespace() ;
Function saveRDS[ "saveRDS" ] ;

List precious = ... // whatever you want to saveRDS
saveRDS( precious, "somefile") ;

> For example, suppose I have created a List in C++ and I want to store
> it with the R equivalent of saveRDS() <because I want to read it in at
> some point later on from within R via readRDS()>.
>
> More details if needed...  I am doing some long-running MCMC
> calculations.  And, I would like the C++ code to store the
> results every, say, 10000 iterations.  Of course, I could do
> this in a loop from R.  But, I want to be sure that is really
> necessary before I re-write my R code ;o)


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