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What is the best way to grow an R return object in writing a C function using the Rdefines.h macros. In my application, the final size of the return object is not known during construction. My understanding is that each time I grow an R object I have to use PROTECT() again, probably before UNPROTECTing the smaller version. However, due to the stack character of the PROTECT mechanism, UNPROTECT

Hi folks. I posted this question a few days ago, but maybe it got lost because of the code I included with it. I'm having a problem using the SET_LENGTH() macro in an R extension I'm writing in C++. In a function within the extension I use SET_LENGTH() to resize R vectors so as to allow the concatenation of single values onto the vectors -- it's a "push back" function to