[R] Rcpp, dyn.load and C++ problems

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sun Dec 3 20:19:52 CET 2017


Martin,

You are making your life way too complicated.

There are a number of things I would do differently:

0) Wrong list. Rcpp has its down, rcpp-devel, and I basically do not read
this and would have missed this were it not for luck.

On 3 December 2017 at 02:06, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
|   I have read some web-pages about Rcpp and C++ but it is a bit confusion
| for me.

1) Keep reading.

| And I compile it like this:
| PKG_CXXFLAGS=$(Rscript -e 'Rcpp:::CxxFlags()') \
| PKG_LIBS=$(Rscript -e 'Rcpp:::LdFlags()')  \
| R CMD SHLIB logistic_map.cpp
| without problems and I get a logistic_map.so file as expected.

2) Possible but too complicated. Read on.
 
| However in R:
| R> dyn.load("logistic_map.so")

3) You never ever need that with Rcpp and its tool, unless you insist on
redoing thing by hand in which case you _must_ use SEXP .Call(SEXP a, ...)

| Please advise,
|   What piece of the puzzle is missing?

4) Keep reading. I will pivot to you other mails. Solution below.

On 3 December 2017 at 20:00, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
| Hi,
|   It is still not working.
|   $ ./compile.sh

5) Still wrong.

On 3 December 2017 at 20:04, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
| Thanks. However search for "Rcpp calling C++ functions from R" gives a lot
| of result but I think
| some of them are outdated and others don't agree with each other.
| 
| Can you point to a specific good on-line guide for me?

6) Call me crazy but maybe the nine vignettes included with the package?

In essence you _complitely_ missed what Rcpp Attributes does and shows, as
does the (newer) Rcpp Introduction vignette.

More crazy, your file was actually 100% correct. I just added three lines to
_also_ execute R code (and I indented just for clarity)

    /*** R
    res <- compute_values_cpp()
    str(res)
    */

Then in R:

    R> library(Rcpp)
    R> sourceCpp("/tmp/mmsp.cpp")
    
    R> res <- compute_values_cpp()
    
    R> str(res)
    List of 2
     $ x: num [1:100000] 199 362 118 302 262 ...
     $ y: num [1:100000] 20 40 14.3 39.5 36.9 ...
    
    R> 

_One call_ of sourceCpp() compiles AND links AND loads AND runs the example R
code (which is optional).

For reference, the current mmsp.cpp follows.

Dirk


#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp;

// [[Rcpp::export]]
List compute_values_cpp(int totalPoints = 1e5, double angle_increment =
0.01, int radius = 400, double grow = 3.64) {
  double xn = 0.5;
  double angle = 0.1;
  double xn_plus_one, yn_plus_one;
  NumericVector x(totalPoints);
  NumericVector y(totalPoints);

  for (int i=0; i<totalPoints; i++) {
    xn_plus_one = xn*cos(angle)*radius;
    yn_plus_one = xn*sin(angle)*radius;
    angle += angle_increment;
    xn = grow*xn*(1-xn);
    x[i] = xn_plus_one;
    y[i] = yn_plus_one;
  }
  return List::create(Rcpp::Named("x") = x, Rcpp::Named("y") = y);
}

/*** R
res <- compute_values_cpp()
str(res)
*/

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