[Rd] cerr and cout not working calling c++ from R

[Sean Robert McGuffee]

Hi,

Sorry, I just tried posting this but I had it in the wrong format of text,
so this is a cleared format repost:

I¹m trying to call some of my c++ code from R and seem to be having an issue
with streams, although that¹s just one obvious sign of something different
in performance between calling the same function from main in c++ vs.
calling the same function from R. I¹m not getting any signs of errors from
R, but the behavior is different somehow and in a way that breaks my
algorithms. In both cases of launching a function from c++ or R, I redirect
cout to a file using a streambuf. In particular, I can see progress stop
when launching from R at a point when cout gets truncated when starting to
write out iterator values in a std::vector<string>. Then, I find no way to
write anything else to cout. When I write those values to Rprintf, they are
there and they are as expected. I¹ve tried setting
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false) in case R is messing with stdout and stderr
somehow, but that made no difference. I¹m not quite sure how R uses those C
FILE* streams. Anyway, I am wondering if anyone has a hunch as to what might
be going on. At this point I don¹t know if it might be an issue with R not
completely handling c++ from a library or if it is an issue with cout in
particular or if there is something else I¹m missing. Please let me know if
you have any suggestions for me.

Thanks,
Sean