[R] R/C++ interfaces: documentation for SET_STRING_ELT, PROTECT, etc...

[Franckx Laurent]

Dear all,

I am reading C++ code that is called in an R package. It is not clear to me what SET_STRING_ELT, getAttrib, etc exactly do.

I understand that these are macros that have been declared in Rinternals.h and who are used for the correct "translation" of the R data structures, but I have not found their definition, and it is not clear to me what they do to their inputs and what type of output they generate precisely.

I have consulted several resources ("Writing R extensions", Gentleman's "R programming for bioinformatics", Chamber's "Software for Data Analysis"), who do mention these macros, but the discussion remains very general (and too general for me to understand the code that I am deciphering).

I have not found a description on CRAN either. Does anybody know an accessible documentation  that could help me forward?


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