[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp, bigmemory, package creation

[JJ Allaire]

Alex,

Glad that you sorted all of this out! Wanted to also point out that there
is a mechanism for bigmemory to have it's headers automatically included in
RcppExports.cpp and perhaps this is something Michael can pursue so
everything works automatically in the future.

In short, if bigmemory defines an Rcpp inline plugin (by calling
Rcpp.plugin.maker) that lists the includes required for correct compilation
then these includes will be inserted at the top of RcppExports.cpp.
Michael, ping me off list if you have any questions or want to discuss
further.

J.J.




On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Alex Ustian <alex.l.ustian at gmail.com>wrote:

> All right!  I think I have it figured out, at least for the toy
> functions/package.
>
> What wasn't compiling wasn't my functions, it was RcppExports.cpp.
> sourceCpp (and hence also the knit example) have been working for me all
> along.  The only issue (apparently) was that RcppExports.cpp was not
> including the bigmemory headers.  It complained about not knowing the type
> "BigMatrix" for example.  However since RcppExports.cpp is automatically
> generated, I didn't know how to force it to include more headers.
>
> It dawned on me that somewhere in the Rcpp-attributes vignette creating
> custom headers came up, sure enough using // [[Rcpp::interfaces(r, cpp)]]
> and following along in that section 3.5 discussion and then rebuilding did
> the trick.  In the end I just I added the required bigmemory header
> "MatrixAccessor.hpp" to the generated "package.h" file, which is then
> automatically included into the RcppExports.cpp file.
>
> Thanks again, and thanks everybody for developing and providing support
> for this incredible software.
> Alex
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 11 April 2013 at 16:14, Alex Ustian wrote:
>> | Sorry to be dense, but you mean to copy and paste the source into an
>> Rmd file
>> | and knit it?  If yes, then I did just that and it did work.
>>
>> Good.
>>
>> Now try to find the differences to your code, which as I understand your
>> post, does not compile.  As you just demonstrated that your compiler, R,
>> Rcpp,
>> bigmemory, ... setup is fine.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> --
>> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>>
>
>
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