[Rd] Creating data.frame from c-language

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 09/08/2013 22:48, Boris Aronshtam wrote:
> I need to create a data.frame from C-language and populate it. I Know how to create lists from C, but I cannot figure out how to create a data.frame. Does anyone have a sample code for creating a data.frame, setting column names, and populating it with data?

Use data.frame() via an eval() call from C.

Or see the code is stats/src/model.c, as part of model.frame.default 
(but I would only do that if speed were essential).

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