[Rcpp-devel] Misunderstanding about sugar
    Dirk Eddelbuettel 
    edd at debian.org
       
    Fri Oct 21 20:56:39 CEST 2011
    
    
  
On 21 October 2011 at 11:23, Davor Cubranic wrote:
| On October 20, 2011 07:58:34 PM Michael Hannon wrote:
| > Greetings.  I'm trying to bootstrap my way into Rcpp.  I have the
| > impression that the "Sugar" extension to Rcpp allows one to use R syntax
| > to run a substantial subset of Rcommands within C++
| 
| I think a more correct statement would be that Rcpp comes with a set of 
| functions that work on NumericVectors, and look and behave a lot like 
| vectorized R functions like sapply, sqrt, and others. But it's still C++ code 
| and C++ syntax.
Nicely put.  I should get you to write more Rcpp documentation :)
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