[Rcpp-devel] Exporting rcpp-based function into parLapply workers in an R package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

This is getting off topic but as you James saw fit to advertise his package
(as he should, it is clearly helpful to some, himself included), here are my
$0.02 of why it is not for me:

On 14 May 2021 at 20:54, Balamuta, James Joseph wrote:
| For code searches, consider using the {searcher} package: https://github.com/r-assist/searcher 
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| In particular, the search_github() function handles the query formatting. As an example, try:

I keep the R prompt(s) (in Emacs, generally) to data work, and do more work
like this on the shell. Where this is less useful (though I sometimes wrap R
commands in littler script). Here I particularly dislike
| 
| searcher::search_github("clusterEvalQ ")
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| This opens a web browser with:
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| https://github.com/search?q=clusterEvalQ%20%20language:r%20type:issue&type=Issues

the shell-to-browser pivot. I have some "permanent tabs" dedicated to GH, I
prefer to search therein.  Also, why default to issues when the query didn't
have it? Anyway ...
 
| Lastly, there is an R-specific Google search engine available at: https://rseek.org/ It's not quite google code search, but it's useful! Plus, there is a {searcher} function for that as well, e.g. searcher::search_rseek().
| (Thanks Alex Rossell Hayes for that contribution.)

Yes that's been around for a while, but codesearch.google.com was still
better and is missed.  One of the other code aggregators that (AFAIK is also
gone now) had a different search engine too.

This whole thread is highly off-tocpic and likely answered by some SO answers
as has bee pointed out as well as possibly some discussions in the r-sig-hpc
list (which is mostly dormant these days).

Dirk

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