[Rcpp-devel] <no subject>

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Good to know you are here too :)

Thanks ... the water seems nice around here and I'm trying to find an
excuse to step in ;-)

[aggressive trimming]

> Sure -- several Rcpp-using packages on CRAN are in a similar situation with
> respect to external libraries such as eg the GSL, or the SNNS lib, or
> ProtoBuf, or ... and Rcpp itself actually started as an interface to QuantLib
> within the RQuantLib package.
>
> So your mail is not off the mark ... but not helpful per se as Sean was
> struggling to get the linking etc sorted out. Now pointing to him also learn
> autoconf and friends---while the Right Thing (TM) in the long run---does not
> help in the short run.  That's what I tried to get at in my mail.

Got it .. yeah, I was just shooting for a "vanilla" R <--> C library
linking example before adding the Rcpp layer on top (I mean, that is
what's happening in part 2 there, no?).

I think there's some benefit in knowing the "normal" way of doing this
before adding the Rcpp abstraction layer into someone's "mental mix",
but maybe just going straight to Rcpp and skipping over the .C/.Call
boiler-plate stuff is helpful and will save some pain for people in
the long run, and not just the short run.

Anyway -- it's a nice package you guys are whipping up, thanks for the
good stuff!

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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