[Rd] StringFromInteger made private in r38652

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Those functions are messy (StringFromRaw was always private), and are 
really just part of coerceVector and asInteger etc (which are the public 
interface).

What RdbiPgSql does is not currently correct.  It has

  PROTECT(rowNames = allocVector(STRSXP, rows));
  for (row = 0; row < rows; ++row)
          SET_VECTOR_ELT(rowNames, row, StringFromInteger(row+1, NULL));

but you should not be applying SET_VECTOR_ELT to a STRSXP.  The intended 
effect is obtained by

   PROTECT(rowNum = allocVector(INTSXP, rows));
   irow = INTEGER(rowNum);
   for(row = 0; row < rows; row++) irow[row] = row+1;
   PROTECT(rowNames = coerceVector(rowNames, STRSXP));

(in R terms, as.character(1:row)).  However, in R-devel, you can make use 
of the space-optimized versions of row.names, so you don't need the 
coercion and would be better off without it.

Finally, this is done unconditionally, but only used if matrix == FALSE.


On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Seth Falcon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In commit 38652, StringFromInteger (among others) was removed from R's
> public API.  I've just come across a Bioconductor package, RdbiPgSql,
> that uses this function.
> 
> Is there an alternative that is in the public API?  If not, it would
> be nice to be able to reuse these sorts of helper functions
> (StringFrom*) instead of reimplementing them for each package.
> 
> + seth
> 
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