[R] R_alloc with structures with "flexible array members"

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Hi Dirk,

Wow!!! That is really useful (and I was completely unaware of it). Thanks!

('sudo apt-get install littler' continued to work perfectly in all the
machines I use).

Thanks,

R.

P.D. One more reason to sign up for your tutorial on useR 2008.



On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi Ramon,
>
>
>  On 5 March 2008 at 22:00, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>  | Yes, of course! You are right. What a silly mistake on my part! I was
>  | using a standalone program for development of functions, debugging,
>  | etc, of what is part of a package.
>
>  That's another good use for littler's r.  With a package foo, I just call
>
>    $ r --package foo --eval 'print(summary(someFunctionIamTesting()))'
>
>  or in short form
>
>    $ r -lfoo -e'print(summary(someFunctionIamTesting()))'
>
>  right after a rebuild of the package in question.  That way you get to keep
>  the package code in the package, and have a light-weight testing wrapper.
>
>  Rscript can do the same (with slightly different calling syntax), in case
>  'sudo apt-get install littler' won't work for you ;-)
>
>  Hth, Dirk
>
>  --
>  Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
>



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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Statistical Computing Team
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz