Another quick update:
Over 100 entry points used in packages for which it was safe to do so
have now been marked as part of an API (in some cases after adding
error checking of arguments). These can be used in package C code,
with caveats for ones considered experimental or intended for embedded
Hi Luke, thanks for all your work on R!
I'd like to ask specifically about R_serialize / R_unserialize (and
associated helper functions). These are used by at least a handful of
packages and I don't see them in the list from Yutani.
Are these API functions considered "stable"?
Best,
Travers
On
Thanks so much for your wonderful work, Luke!
I didn't expect such a clarification to happen this soon. This is really
great.
For convenience, I created a quick web page to search the result of
tools:::funAPI().
https://yutannihilation.github.io/R-fun-API/
Hope this helps those who are too lazy
Thanks for sharing this overview of an interesting and much-needed project.
You mention that R exports about 1500 symbols (on platforms supporting
visibility) but this subject isn't mentioned explicitly again in your note,
so I'm wondering how things tie together. Un-exported symbols cannot be
pa
Thanks for working on this Luke! We appreciate your efforts to make it
easier to tell what's in the exported API and we're very happy to work with
you on any changes needed to tidyverse/r-lib packages.
Hadley
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