[Rd] Returning vectors of two different data types back to R environment (from C).

Oleg Sklyar osklyar at ebi.ac.uk
Sat Nov 17 01:53:11 CET 2007


SEXP x,y,res;
PROTECT(res = allocVector(VECSXP, 2));
SET_VECTOR_ELT(res, 0, x = allocVector(REALSXP, 20)); 
SET_VECTOR_ELT(res, 1, y = allocVector(INTSXP, 10)); 
// code with x,y goes here

UNPROTECT(1);
return res;

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:49 -0500, Charles Danko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Quick question.
> 
> I have written a C function - I would like to make it return two vectors to
> the R environment - one STRSXP vector, and one INTSXP vector.  Is this
> possible/ easy to do using the API?
> 
> I looked, but could not find the answer to this  question in the "Writing R
> Extensions" guide.
> 
> Thanks very much for your help!
> Charles
> 
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