[Rcpp-devel] DataFrame -> dims protected

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 May 2011 at 16:44, Nick Sabbe wrote:
| Dear all,
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| I?m new to Rcpp (see also my previous message).
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| I?m trying to do some things to a data.frame passed in as a parameter.
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| One of the first things I need is the size of this data.frame, and I found the,
| unfortunately protected, member dims which returns just that.
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| Now, I can simply do what?s in its code, but it made me wonder: what is the
| reason that this method is protected?

Rcpp::DataFrame is really just a glorified Rcpp::List (as the R type itself
is also 'just' a list with magic and names etc). So think of it as a
collection of columns.

Was your real whether you can change the size of an existing data.frame at
the C++ level?   No, not easily.  You have to copy all column over and modify
them one by one.

Dirk

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