[Rd] Question on parsing R code from C
KR
krunal.rao78 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 00:24:10 CET 2011
First of all thanks a lot to you both for all the replies, they have been of
great help to me!
I got the basic embedding running, however I still have some issues to solve in
order to complete the interface to R I am working on:
1. I initialize with Rf_initEmbeddR().
- Is there a way to have more than one R "state" (per single thread)? Or is
everything necessarily global?
- I also read somewhere that the fpu settings may be touched. Is there a way to
make sure that this is not the case? Is this related to fpu_setup()?
2. I create a string and parse it via Rf_mkString() and R_parseVector() (yes I
protect/un-protect the SEXPs).
- Is it possible to obtain the precise error message, like "unexpected symbol
in..." (as would be reported by R.exe) in case of error as a const char* string?
- If I pass a wrongly escaped string (for instance 'ggsave("C:\gtest.png")',
please notice the missing \) I get on stderr: Error '\g' is an unrecognized
escape and I get a crash. This does not happen if for instance i try to parse
'rnorm(10a10)' in which case I get the error flag and the NULL ptr return. I
suspect I need to initialize something / set a callback to avoid this but I am
not sure...
3. I eval with R_tryEvalSilent().
- Again, is it possible to obtain the precise error message in case of
evaluation error as would be reported from R.exe?
4. Regarding the returned result of evaluation.
- What is the correct way to obtain a const char* string representing the result
as would be "printed" in the R shell by executing a command (for instance
"summary(c(1,2,3))") ?
- Why is the return type (as reported from typeof in R and TYPEOF in C) of
"summary(c(1,2,3))" a double?
Any help / feedback on these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
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