[Rcpp-devel] Wrapping copy constructor in rcpp?

[Tama Ma]

Dear Dirk,

	Thanks for the reply. I am pretty sure that it has not been implemented yet, and I will try to look into it. From a practical point of view, I would want to copy a "Rcpp" object in the R interface, and not a "copy-by-pointer" approach now. 
	Thank you once again.

Best regards,
Tama Ma


On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> On 4 November 2011 at 16:08, Tama Ma wrote:
> | Dear Rcpp developers,
> | 
> | 	Maybe my previous email has been ignored. I am asking whether there is a possibility to wrap the copy constructor in a C++ class via Rcpp? 
> 
> You get a firm "maybe" and even an additional "why not" from me.
> 
> I am a little unsure exactly what you are after.  Basic Rcpp functions _all_
> have to conform to the .Call()-required interface
> 
>     extern "C" SEXP foo(SEXP a, SEXP b)
> 
> signature (for a variable number of arguments). 
> 
> So no ctor or copy ctor here.  
> 
> So I presume you are talking about Rcpp Modules?  We have some documentation
> on what is possible. If you don't see an explicit mention or example or unit
> test doing it, then maybe it hasn't been implemented yet.  But this is Open
> Source and you have already contributed a patch so you know the drill, right :)
> 
> Dirk
> 
> -- 
> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too
> dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
> 


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Tama Ma 
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