[Rcpp-devel] Create scalar values in Rcpp

[Jeff Newmiller]

I did not intend to shoot anyone... but my own learning curve led me to skip over the clear descriptions in the "Introduction to R" document because I thought I already understood the terminology. True, it happened a long time ago, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to grok this because the terminology seemed so familiar, and I searched on the wrong terms because of it.

On December 10, 2018 9:06:20 AM PST, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>Jeff,
>
>On 10 December 2018 at 08:43, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>| Your use of the term "array" in this context suggests you still don't
>have a firm grasp of R data types. R arrays are vectors with dim
>attributes. What you want is to create an R vector with 1 element, as
>shown in the quick reference. [1]
>
>No need to shoot the messenger. I happen to know Wolf comes from C++
>and
>Pythonland where array is well defined term.
>
>But yes, over here some things are different.  But not everybody has
>spent
>10+ (or 20+) years in R and S land as you and I.
>
>Dirk

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