[Rcpp-devel] plugin in a package - how is it registered?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Simon,

On 11 October 2013 at 23:43, Simon Zehnder wrote:
| I have a very short question in regard to plugins in packages. I have written my own plugin using Rcpp.plugin.maker (very well documented in FAQ btw).
| 
| I know, that on the command line calling registerPlugin() registers the plugin. From RcppArmadillo I can see, that the registerPlugin function is never called inside the package - but I see also, that the file is called inline.R. How does the inline package register/identify a plugin? Is a plugin registered automatically when called inside cxxfunction? Does it have to be put into a file called 'inline.R'? 

What is your actual intent?  To support inline? To support Rcpp Attributes?

I have not looked at this in a while, but I think we may not actually
required registration (ie there is no run-time state vector accumulating
plugin callbacks...) but when a plugin is invoked, it points to a package and
hence the package namespace is searched and a corresponding function is
called.

This is from memory. Actual details may differ. Void where prohibited :)

Dirk

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