On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Tom McCallum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been studying the R manual on lists but cannot seem to create a
> simple R list in C - I keep on getting "'dimnames' applied to
non-array"
> whenever I attempt to assign names to the list elements:
Maybe:
setAttrib( priceList, R_NamesSymbol, dimnames );
why should a list have dimnames?
In addition, your dimnames is a list, and likely ought to be a character
vector. That way you can get away with many fewer PROTECT().
Roger
>
> Wanted output a list structure something like
> [ type="Bid", price=2.0, volume=1000 ]
>
> I can get up to a list of
> [ "Bid2, 2.0, 1000 ]
>
> But for the life of me I can't assign the names to the list items - any
> suggestions?
>
> Below is what I already have - any comments on things I don't really
need
> to do as well in terms of creating extra string objects etc are also
> helpful.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
> ======EXTRACT========>
>
> SEXP typeStr, volumeStr, priceStr, typeValStr;
> SEXP priceList;
>
> // create main list of vectors (unspecific items )
> PROTECT( priceList = allocVector( VECSXP, 3 ) );
>
> // for each item create a label and attach value
> PROTECT( typeValStr = allocVector( STRSXP, 1 ) );
> SET_STRING_ELT( typeValStr, 0,
> mkChar( getPriceDataTypeAsString( p.getData().getType() ).c_str() ) );
> SET_STRING_ELT( priceList, 0, typeValStr) ;
>
> SEXP priceSXP;
> PROTECT( priceSXP = allocVector( REALSXP, 1) );
> REAL(priceSXP)[0] = p.getData().getPrice();
> SET_VECTOR_ELT( priceList, 1, priceSXP);
>
> SEXP volumeSXP;
> PROTECT( volumeSXP = allocVector( REALSXP, 1 ) );
> REAL(volumeSXP)[0] = p.getData().getVolume();
> SET_VECTOR_ELT( priceList, 2, volumeSXP);
>
> ********WORKS UP TO HERE*************
>
> // add the names of the list items (type,price,volume)
> SEXP dimnames;
> PROTECT( dimnames = allocVector( VECSXP, 3 ) );
>
> // first create string objects
> PROTECT( typeStr = allocVector( STRSXP,1 ) );
> SET_STRING_ELT( typeStr, 0, mkChar("type") );
>
> PROTECT( priceStr = allocVector( STRSXP,1 ) );
> SET_STRING_ELT( priceStr, 0, mkChar("price") );
>
> PROTECT( volumeStr = allocVector( STRSXP,1 ) );
> SET_STRING_ELT( volumeStr, 0, mkChar("volume") );
>
> // assign string objects to vector
> SET_VECTOR_ELT( dimnames, 0, typeStr );
> SET_VECTOR_ELT( dimnames, 1, priceStr);
> SET_VECTOR_ELT( dimnames, 2, volumeStr );
>
> // assign vector to original list of data
> setAttrib( priceList, R_DimNamesSymbol, dimnames ); <----- I think
this
> is wrong but I don;t know what it should be
>
> ===========END EXTRACT==============>
>
--
Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no