[Rcpp-devel] sourceCpp issue: code vs. file

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 May 2013 at 09:03, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| >> R governs the behaviour of R CMD <whatever> based on the extension.
| >>
| >> The .cxx form was /never/ supported by R as far as I know.
| >
| > Indeed. According to "Package subdirectories" in Writing R Extensions
| > (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-subdirectories)
| > the only supported extensions are .c, .cc, .cpp, .f, .f90, .f95, .m, and
| > .mm.
| 
| So maybe sourceCpp could provide a warning if the extension is not in that list?

Hmpd. I am not exactly sure why you advocate supporting .c or .f, .f90, .f95,
.m and .mm none of which are likely to work _in any way_ with the parsing
done and scaffolding added by sourceCpp.  When you read 'sourceCpp', mentally
stress the last three letters.

This is for R and C++.  And the file extension is .cpp (with a bit of luck
you may get .cc).  

The rest is user error.  You can't try and catch everything.

Dirk

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