[Rcpp-devel] Is there an easy way to convert Rcpp code to pure cpp code to build a command line tool

[Yue Li]

Got it. Thank you so much Dirk!

Yue

> On May 4, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4 May 2017 at 10:16, Yue Li wrote:
> | Dear List,
> | 
> | This is probably a dumb question:
> | 
> | Is there an easy way to convert Rcpp code to pure cpp code to build a command line tool?
> | 
> | I was thinking about something similar to the 'python setup.py install’ thing. Once the software is built, the binary executable can be added to /usr/bin/ and invoked directly on command line without the R environment.
> 
> Not quite. "All you get" is python script with, say '#!/usr/bin/python'
> loading the packaged modules.  And *not* a binary executable.  
> 
> And guess what: all that exists for R too via littler and Rscript.  Maybe
> start here
> 
>   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html
> 
> and look at all the examples here
> 
>   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.examples.html
> 
> and in the repo
> 
>   https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/tree/master/inst/examples
> 
> You then deploy packages using Rcpp just any of the other R packages.
> 
> | I apologize as the question seems to be spoiled in that i could write everything in cpp in the first place ...
> 
> Yes, it was an off-topic question.
> 
> Dirk
> | 
> | many thanks!
> | Yue
> | 
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