[Rcpp-devel] Sparse matrix operations

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 February 2014 at 09:30, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
| Just to clarify this (for myself): 
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| In a broader perspective, isn't it so now that there is very limited need for as< >(some_SEXP)? 
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| When calling from R we can declare input to be NumericMatrices, NumericVectors ets, but we can also declare it to be arma-matrices, arma-vectors etc AND also Eigen-matrices etc?
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| Where one definitely needs as< >() is when inputting some SEXP which one wants to coerce to some STL container? 
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| Are there other cases where one definitely needs the coercion via as<>()??

"Whenever implicit coercion does not work"

It really is that murky. Template programming is hard.

Dirk

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