[Rcpp-devel] Locating an Instance of a Reference Class in the Environment

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us
Fri Mar 24 19:34:38 CET 2023


Matthew... the normal context for sharing Rcpp code is within a package. It is a no-brainer to have an R API called by the user that calls whatever Rcpp code it needs to, which is why your objection seems inappropriate to me.

On March 24, 2023 10:43:34 AM PDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>On 24 March 2023 at 13:08, Matthew Supernaw - NOAA Federal wrote:
>| I'm sure it's possible to do from the R side, however, the requirement is to
>| hide this from the end user and set the reference objects name to the declared
>| name from the R environment. If I view the environment in RStudio, there is
>| much more information available. ls() only returns a list of objects by their
>| declared name. I'm wondering how to get more details about elements in the
>| environment.
>
>Thanks for additional color.  That may be a very interesting and valuable
>question _for the C API of R_ and youe guess of "maybe Rcpp has a helper" is
>a good one.  Sadly, I fear we may not have anything for you.  
>
>Dirk
>
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