[R] Passing a Matrix to .C?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jess Mar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to pass a matrix object in R to the .C
> function?
>
> Moreover is it possible to have .C return a matrix object
> back into R?

No, no.  You have two choices

1) (Recommended.)  Use .Call: see the examples in `Writing R Extensions'.

2) A matrix is a vector with dimension attributes, so pass the vector and
the dimensions separately.  There are lots of examples of that, for example
in nnet.  This only needs a little more work, but does involve more
copying of objects.

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