Hi Simon,
Your response hits the mark of why I am doing it that way rather than going
with what Stepan proposed. Also good to hear that you consider my analysis to
be pretty complete. Thanks for the feedback!
Regards,
Andreas
2019-05-20 15:54 GMT+02:00 Simon Urbanek:
> Stepan,
>
> Andreas gave
Stepan,
Andreas gave a lot more thought into what you question in your reply. His
question was how you can avoid what you where proposing and have proper
threading under safe conditions. Having dealt with this before, I think
Andreas' write up is pretty much the most complete analysis I have se
Hi Andreas,
note that with the introduction of ALTREP, as far as I understand, calls
as "simple" as DATAPTR can execute arbitrary code (R or native). Even
without ALTREP, if you execute user-provided R code via Rf_eval and such
on some custom thread, you may end up executing native code of som
Hi,
As the subject suggests, I am looking for the most robust way to call an
(arbitrary) function from the R API from another but the main POSIX thread in a
package's code.
I know that, "[c]alling any of the R API from threaded code is ‘for experts
only’ and strongly discouraged. Many function
