Hi, On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Roger D. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the functions 'R_Unserialize' and 'R_InitFileInPStream' allowed to > be used in R packages? I guess I'm just not clear on the implications > of this comment in 'Rinternals.h': > > /* The connection interface is not yet available to packages. To > allow limited use of connection pointers this defines the opaque > pointer type. */ > > I have a function in the 'filehash' package that unserializes a bunch > of objects from a file and it seems to run much faster in C than in R. > But I don't want to release something that uses a non-public > function/interface.
You say "much faster". Could this be related to what I recently observed: July 24, 2008 thread '[Rd] serialize() to via temporary file is heaps faster than doing it directly (on Windows)' [ https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-July/050256.html ]. My $0.02 /Henrik > > Thanks, > -roger > -- > Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
