[R] Re: Welcome to the "R-help" mailing list

[Li, Xiaolei]

Thanks for the reply!

Xiaolei

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Li, Xiaolei wrote:
>
> Yes, welcome, and please note the clear instructions for users in the
> posting guide, to wit:  give an informative subject, and read the
> necessary documentation first.
>
> In your case, just accessing the "Packages" link in the navigation bar of
> the CRAN website would take you straight to the source package you are
> interested in. As the name suggests, source packages contain the source
> code for a package. The posting guide also suggests (firmly) that
> questions about packages should be addressed to their maintainers.
>
> As the maintainer of spdep, I may be able to respond to motivated
> questions off-list, but I doubt that your approach is going to be
> fruitful; there are usually better ways of doing things than writing C++,
> in fact writing R can be just as productive, and is much easier to debug.
>
> >
> > I am trying to pass some R objects to C++ code. However, after reading
> > through the mannual "Writing R extensioms" for version 2.1.0
> > (2005-04-18),
> > I still couldn't figure out:
> >
> > 1) How can I see .c files in a package? For example, I am interested in
> > looking at source files in "Spdep".
> >
> > 2) Can I include whichever header files I find in my C++ code, if I
> > eventually will load the C++ code into R?
> >
> > 3) If yes to 2), where are header files of packages such as "Spdep"?
> >
> > 4) Any written code to handle matrices in this interface with C++?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Xiaolei
> >
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______________________________________
Xiaolei Li

Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1130A Medical Science Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
USA

Office: (608)265-6217
Email: lxiaolei at stat.wisc.edu