The Rcpp library in RcppTemplate (the package that Rcpp forked from)
simplifies the process
of calling functions from C++. The design goal was to enable users to focus
on
scientific problem solving rather than interface problems and low-level R
internals (by
hiding these details and documenting everything).

The current Rcpp package is a mashup of the packages RcppTemplate (old
version),
inline, and RInside that involves a fair amount of low-level R hacking, and
this is
probably consistent with the preferences of most readers of this list.

If I am mistaken and there are any users of RcppTemplate please let me know,
as I
am thinking about reoganizing that package to minimize confusion with the
fork.

Thanks,
Dominick

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Romain Francois <romain.francois@dbmail.com
> wrote:

> On 01/14/2010 12:42 PM, Laurent Gautier wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In Rcpp, we now have a "Function" class to encapsulate functions
>>> (they cover all three kinds, but this may change).
>>>
>>
>> Just a note on that: there is probably no hurry to do so.
>> rpy2 is also having CLOSXP, BUILTINSXP, and SPECIALSXP represented as
>> one function-like class and seems to be behave reasonably while a lot of
>> other things seem more urgent to sort out.
>>
>>  To call the function, what we do is generate a call with the function
>>> as the first node and then evaluate the call.
>>>
>>> SEXP stats = PROTECT( R_FindNamespace( mkString( "stats") ) ); SEXP
>>> rnorm = PROTECT( findVarInFrame( stats, install( "rnorm") ) ) ; SEXP
>>> call = PROTECT( LCONS( rnorm, CONS( ScalarInteger(10),
>>> CONS(ScalarReal(0), R_NilValue ) ) ) ); SEXP res = PROTECT( eval(
>>> call , R_GlobalEnv ) ); UNPROTECT(4) ; return res ;
>>>
>>> It works, but I was wondering if there was another way. I've seen
>>> applyClosure, but I'm not sure I should attempt to use it or if using
>>> a call like above is good enough.
>>>
>>
>> Using R_tryEval() will let you evaluate an expression in a given
>> environment, as well as capture an eventual error occurring during its
>> evaluation (and translate it as an exception).
>>
>
> Sure. I did not want to over-complicate the question.
>
> I'm currently reviewing tryEval and its underlying R_TopLevelExec which
> does not give me enough : when the error occurs, it'd be useful that the
> function returns the condition object instead of NULL.
>
>
>  Romain
>>>
>>> PS: using Rcpp's C++ classes you would express the code above as :
>>>
>>> Environment stats("package:stats") ; Function rnorm = stats.get(
>>> "rnorm" ) return rnorm( 10, 0.0 ) ;
>>>
>>
>> Feel free to snoop in rpy2's rpy/rinterface/rinterface.c and look for
>> "do_try_eval". The behavior looks very similar, the above snippet in
>> rpy2 would write like:
>>
>> from rpy2.robjects.packages import importr
>> stats = importr('stats')
>> stats.rnorm(10, 0.0)
>>
>
> nice
>
>
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