On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
> > > > On Apr 22, 2024, at 7:37 PM, Gabriel Becker <gabembec...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Yutani, > > > > ALTREP is part of the official R api, as illustrated by the presence of > > src/include/R_ext/Altrep.h. Everything declared in the header files in > that > > directory is official API AFAIK (and I believe that is more definitive > than > > the manuals). > > > > That is not true at all - the presence of header does not constitute > declaration of something as the R API. There are cases where internal > functions are in the headers for historical or other reasons since the > headers are used both for the internal implementation and packages. That's > why this is in R-exts under "The R API: entry points for C code": > If I understand your point correctly, does this mean that Rf_allocVector() is not part of the "official" R API? It does not appear to be documented in the "The R API: entry points for C code" section. Hadley -- http://hadley.nz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
