Simon Urbanek wrote: >> Can any valid SEXP expression be given in the setSEXP command? >> >> I tried to send a numeric matrix by including the dim attribute with >> the data, but get an error code 68 (some parameters are invalid). Is >> the dim attribute not supported by setSEXP? If so, does this mean a >> matrix should be sent as a list, then a dim command sent in a second >> step? > > > It's a combination of a bug and missing feature. The bug is that the > attribute of an expression is not decoded at all. The missing feature > is that (dotted-pair) lists are not supported in decode, so you can't > pass an attribute anyway, because they are stored in dotted-pair lists. > So, for now, yes, you have to assign the names in a separate step - > I'll need to fix that ... I'll keep you posted.
Hi Simon Thanks for the quick response. A couple of other things I noticed: 1. It would be useful to support the complex datatype. I suspect this would be straightforward for Rserve and it would be up to the client to make proper use of it. 2. The documentation and behaviour when sending character strings could be improved. For example, suppose the character string is 'abcde'. You need to send the length, but is the length 5 (=number of characters), 6 (5 + the zero character), or 8 (actual length of transmitted data rounded to 4 byte boundary? I had expected it to be 8, which is the length of data the programmer needs to pick up, before moving on to the next block. The character string would then be read up to the first 0. Actually, if you give a len of 8, then: CMD_setSEXP 'var';'abcde' assigns the value as in: var=c("abcde","","") This means that the two additional zeros that are padding, are interpreted as empty strings. So in practice, a len of 6 is needed (i.e. length of string plus the zero character). It is probably worth documenting which is correct, and also, for zero-terminated strings, always reading them up to the first zero only, and discarding the rest. Incidentally, this is for the XT_STR expression. For DT_STR, lengths of either 6 or 8 work correctly. Great program, by the way. Chris ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel