Fortran character strings
Thomas Lumley
thomas@biostat.washington.edu
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:46:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> > PS. A comment on ?.External: We have
> >
> > list void * (SEXP *)
> > other void * (SEXP)
> >
> > I think this (showing the alternative in parenteses) may be confusing.
> > Shouldn't we show the preferred method in the table and mention the
> > alternative somewhere in the text following?
>
> It is confusing. Actually all of them are mapped to void *, so I think we
> should be giving SEXP * and SEXP. Thomas?
The reason for having void * listed is that you can then declare the
arguments without including the Rinternals header, but that could
just be explained in the text. Done.
-thomas
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