[Rcpp-devel] deprecated functionality in Armadillo 2.3.x / 2.4.x and onwards

[Romain François]

Le 17/11/11 07:47, c s a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel<edd at debian.org>  wrote:
>> Cool, thanks.  While I have your attention:  the R and the CRAN
>> infrastructure now also test for use of std::cout in linked-in libraries
>> (as R has its own i/o buffering; one shall not mix with iostreams):
>> ...
>> A quick grep shows that there isn't that much code using it.  Would you be up
>> for defining a new #define (which defaults to TRUE for you but FALSE for
>> RcppArmadillo) so that we could build without?  I'd be happy to prepare a
>> patch for you.  If not, we'll just live with the warning as I'd rather not
>> constantly patch you code for each new release.
> #ifdef'ing the code out would break documented public APIs, so this
> particular solution is not really doable.  Sorry.
>
> Furthermore, functions for error notifications (eg. out of bounds
> access) also print to the cout stream by default.
>
> I'm open to looking at solutions which provide a different default
> stream, as long as it's a C++ std::ostream.
That would work for us, as Dirk recently commited a contributed patch to 
add Rcpp::rout which is an ostream that forwards to R's console printing 
facilities.

Romain

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