[Rd] SEXPs and slots

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon Nov 15 18:09:25 CET 2010


On 15 November 2010 at 10:46, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| > 2.  Any good references/resources for developing R?  Nearly all the
| > documents I've found are for programming R as a user, not as a developer.  I
| > have copies of the documentation, which are very helpful, but it'd be
| > helpful to have additional resources to fill in their gaps.
| 
| The best advice I've received is to use Rcpp:
| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4106174/where-can-i-learn-to-how-to-write-c-code-to-speed-up-slow-r-functions.
|  It provides a consistent api for C <-> R conversions and so is much
| easier to learn.  Dirk and Romain are also churning out the
| documentation, so there are lots of examples to learn from.

Thanks for the plug and endorsement -- we appreciate it. One correction
though:  We strive to provide seamless C++ and R integration, not C and R.

Dirk

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