R help - Jul 2003 - R matrices in memory

Acording to the documentation in gsl 

"The physical row dimension tda, or trailing dimension, specifies the size
of a row of the matrix as laid out in memory"

I think that if I pass a matrix to C++ through .C as single ( or.double ),
that is, 

.C ( as.single ( matrix ))

then the tda is simply the number of elements of that matrix.
Am I right?

Thank you.

Francisco J Molina <fjmolina at lbl.gov> writes:
> Acording to the documentation in gsl 
> 
> "The physical row dimension tda, or trailing dimension, specifies the
size
> of a row of the matrix as laid out in memory"
I think you may have problems here.  Arrays in R are stored in
column-major ordering, as in Fortran.  In other words, the elements of
a row of a matrix are not adjacent in memory so "the size of a row of
the matrix as laid out in memory" is not meaningful.  

For R matrices the elements of columns are adjacent in memory.

You may need to write conversion routines to copy the contents of the
R matrix into the form that GSL expects.
> I think that if I pass a matrix to C++ through .C as single ( or.double ),
> that is, 
> 
> .C ( as.single ( matrix ))
> 
> then the tda is simply the number of elements of that matrix.