It's great to see the community mobilize to try to resolve this issue.
Obviously C++ has become a big part of R extensions, so it would be nice
to have clear guidelines and tools to be able to use C++ safely with the
R API.
Unfortunately doing this will probably require a fair bit of work. If
Abs,
There are definitely problems with the editorial, but I think "most
mega-ultra-super-biased" is an overreaction. It appears that you have
overlooked some of the points made there, and the fact that it does not pretend
to be an exhaustive list of alternative methods. The editorial attempts
Hi,
It may or may not be of interest to you but an example how to access R
functions from C++ can be found in the ROOT C++ framework, ROOT Version
6, see e.g.:
https://root.cern/doc/master/classROOT_1_1R_1_1TRInterface.html
with an example shown in:
https://root.cern/doc/master/r_2example_8C.h
tl;dr: we need better C++ tools and documentation.
We collectively know more now with the rise of tools like rchk and improved
documentation such as Tomas’s post. That’s a start, but it appears that there
still is a lot of knowledge that would deserve to be promoted to actual
documentation of
