[R] getAttrb - Solved

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote:

> Hi,
> I changed 
> INTEGER(getAttrib(shape,mkChar("nParts")))[0]
> to
> INTEGER(getAttrib(shape,mkString("nParts")))[0]
> 
> and now it works fine.

In `Writing R Extensions' you would have seen that the second argument of
getAttrib (and setAttrib) is the name in the symbol table, and the way to
get that is install("nParts"). (Towards the end of section 3.6.4.)  The
first line of getAttrib is in fact

    if (isString(name)) name = install(CHAR(STRING_ELT(name, 0)));

which shows that mkString is immediately being undone.

These internals are not very extensively documented, but this call was.
In other cases, look at the usage in the code of R itself (src/main/*.c)
for clarification.

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