Re: [Rd] asking for suggestions: interface for a C++ class

2009-09-05 Thread Jay Emerson
Yuri, Based on your brief description, we have already done this with bigmemory, and the ff package does something very similar but with emphasis on a wide range of atomic data types and data frame. Unless you are planning something different from what's been done before, you shouldn't waste valu

Re: [Rd] asking for suggestions: interface for a C++ class

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
Yurii, On Sep 4, 2009, at 16:54 , Yurii Aulchenko wrote: Dear All, I would like to have an advice for designing an R library, and thought that R-devel may be the best place to ask given so many people who are highly expert in R are around. We are at an early stage of designing an R libra

Re: [Rd] asking for suggestions: interface for a C++ class

2009-09-04 Thread Seth Falcon
* On 2009-09-04 at 22:54 +0200 Yurii Aulchenko wrote: > We are at an early stage of designing an R library, which is effectively an > interface to a C++ library providing fast access to large matrices stored > on HDD as binary files. The core of the C++ library is relatively > sophisticated clas