[Rcpp-devel] today's commits

[Romain François]

Hi,

Just to summarize todays commits:

- new Symbol class to wrap symbols (SYMSXP)

Symbol( "rnorm" ) instead of Rf_install("rnorm")


- new Language class to wrap language (LANGSXP)

Language( "rnorm", 1, 2.0, 3.0 )

makes an object that wraps something liks this :

 > call( "rnorm", 1L, 2.0, 3.0 )


- new variadic template pairlist to generate a pairlist from an 
arbitrary number of wrappable objects, this is used in the Language 
class but may also be used to generate pairlists (LISTSXP)

pairlist( 1, 2, std::string("foo"), true )


- new template grow : takes something that can be wrapped and use it as 
the head of the pairlist (append the wrapped object to the second 
argument). This is used in pairlist.


- new class Named that can be used to emulate named arguments in calls 
(or pairlists):

Language( "rnorm", 1, Named("mean", 2.0) , 3.0 )

will make this :

 > call( "rnorm", 1L, mean = 2.0, 3.0 )


- wrap is now a template. the default returns NULL and issue a warning, 
the specific implementations are as before.

- new template as, to ease conversions of SEXP into C++ types int, 
double, vector<string>, ... the code comes from RObject.asFoo() methods. 
so we can write things like this :

vector<double> y = as< vector<double> >(x) ;

where x is a SEXP (can also be an RObject through the magic operator SEXP()



- the garbage collection is now automatic and hidden, thanks to the many 
insights from the R-devel heroes yesterday.

- the RObject interface is now more complete, with copy constructors and 
assignment operators (taking SEXP or RObject)


I think that's it. see the changelog othewise.

Romain

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