[Rcpp-devel] Over-loading R functions

[Sparapani, Rodney]

Hi Dirk:

On 3/26/16, 5:38 PM, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>Happy Easter to you too.  I don't understand your point, I am afraid.  If
>you
>think you need an rnorm variant with vector arguments for mean and sd, why
>don't you just write one, as you did here, and release it as a package?
>As I
>understand you, this is to solve an apparent issue at the R level,
>correct?

I might do that.  But, its not the R level since those features already
exist;
I¹m just mimicking them at the C++ level.  The R transcript was a proof of
concept to make sure this was actually doable.

>I really do not see how that __fits into them mission of giving a simple
>and
>useful mechanism__ for access the R RNGs accessible via the R C API.  I am
>probably missing something here.

Well, it might be relevant to other functions, but as you have guessed it
is
mainly an issue with RNGs.

>In case you want a C(++) level to vector argument mean and sd, you can do
>exactly the same but at a different layer.  Nobody is stopping you, but as
>nobody but you seem to think this is missing in Rcpp nobody but you is
>likely
>to work on it either.

Well, like I said, someone else did ask me why it was missing.  And
perhaps 
others have wondered as well.  Anyways, it is trivial to fix as I¹ve shown.
I¹m wondering if these can be generated via the pre-processor since they
are
rather simple.  If I make any progress, maybe it would be worth a Gallery
post.

Thanks,

Rodney