[Rcpp-devel] Question regarding Rcpp/RcppArmadillo and Rcpp/sugar

[Venelin Mitov]

Hi,

I am trying to use Rcpp for translating an R program in C++. There seems to
be some redundancy in the functionality provided by RcppArmadillo and pure
Rcpp, for example, one can use arma::vec instead of NumericVector and
arma::mat instead of NumericMatrix. And it is possible to evaluate
algebraic expressions with both classes. If I understand correctly,
RcppArmadillo relies on overloaded operators for the arma:: classes (+,-,
*...). On the other hand, these operations are made possible with
NumericMatrix with sugar, right?

So my question is: Is there a rule of thumb to choose between one or
another implementation?

Cheers,
Venelin
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