[Rcpp-devel] RcppModules with templated class

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

Dear Dirk,

Many thanks for your quick (as ever) response.

On 1 Sep 2014, at 13:27, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> But in this case consider that
> a) R itself only knows double so at some point both variants need to 
> be
> promoted up

Yes, the code presently includes a static cast to the template scalar 
type on the way in and a static cast to double on the way out. These 
should be noops when the template scalar type is double.

Incidentlally the reason to do this is that the objects may be reused 
repeatedly from R and can contain a large number of stored coordinates 
– for which using floats obviously has a space advantage.

> b) Rcpp does a lot of magic for the C++ classes / member functions 
> which
> become callable by R BUT recall that R does not have type signatures.
> So  foo(const double & x)  and  foo(const float & x)  look the same to 
> R.

I don't think that should be a problem in my case as the entry point for 
R always expects double inputs.

> | So is there a way round this? Do I have to write an explicit wrap
>
> Maybe, or maybe bite the bullet on this one now, and just typedef to 
> one of
> your two implementations?

I'm not sure that I understand this point, but it may be what I have 
already tried. What I was trying to do was write templated code, typedef 
two separate types one for double, one for float and then export each of 
them separately.

Many thanks,

Greg.

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