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Dear R-devel, Some time ago I started a thread that boiled down to clean-up actions after non-local exits in R, see below. I wonder if there has been any progress on this? R-ext 2.6.1 doesn't say much on the subject. How, for example, do people deal with a situation where their C (C++) function opens a file and then receives a signal or longjump-s on error(), how do they make sure the

Hi, To speed up reading of large (few million lines) CSV files I am writing custom read functions (in C). By timing various approaches I figured out that one of the bottlenecks in reading character fields is the mkChar() function which on each call incurs a lot of garbage-collection-related overhead. I wonder if there is a "vectorized" version of mkChar, say mkChar2(char **, int

Hi, I am trying to figure a way to allocate a string SEXP so that gc() won't ever collect it. Here is a little bit of a background. Suppose I want to write a .Call-callable function that upon each call returns the same value, say mkChar("foo"): SEXP getFoo() { return mkChar("foo"); } The above implementation doesn't take advantage of the fact that

I believe IO in R is slow because of the way it is implemented, not because it has to do some extra work for the user. I compared scan() with 'what' argument set (which is, AFAIK, is the fastest way to read a CSV file) to an equivalent C code. It turned out to be 20 - 50 times slower. I can see at least two main reasons why R's IO is so slow (I didn't profile this though): A) it

Hi guys, I've got a question about the API mkchar(). I have met some difficulty in parsing utf-8 string to mkchar() in R-2.7.0. I was intending to parse an utf-8 string str_jan (some Japanese characters such as?, whose utf-8 code is E381B5) to R API SEXP mkChar(const char *name) , we only need to create the SEXP using the string that we parsed. Unfortunately, I found when parsing the

Hi, Thank you to Duncan Murdoch for pointing to http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/barrier.html. I have a couple of questions in this regard: * suppose that inside a C function I have a SEXP vector x of integers and I want to increment each element by one. I understand that int * xIPtr = INTEGER(x); int i; for (i=0; i<LENGTH(x); ++i) SET_VECTOR_ELT(x, i, xIPtr[i]+1); is the

Hi, I want to read a text file into R with .Call(). So I define some NEW_CHARACTER() to store the chracters read and use SET_STRING_ELT to fill the elements. e.g. PROTECT(qNames = NEW_CHARACTER(10000)); char *foo; // This foo holds the string I want. while(foo = readLine(FN)){ SET_STRING_ELT(qNames, i, mkChar(foo))); } In this way, I can get the desired character from qNames. The only problem

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01C3738F.63DE3390 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" #I want to be able to create a new S4 class and read data into it using C code # Here is a very simple S4 object inheriting from "array", but with 5

Luke, Thank you for sharing the benchmark results. The improvement is very substantial, I am looking forward to the release of the byte compiler! The arithmetic shows that x[i]<- is still the bottleneck. I suspect that this is due to a very involved dispatching/search for the appropriate function on the C level. There might be significant gain if loops somehow cached the result of the initial

The documentation for the POSIXlt class states '"POSIXlt" objects will often have an attribute "tzone", a character vector of length 3 giving the time zone name from the TZ environment variable and the names of the base time zone and the alternate (daylight-saving) time zone. Sometimes this may just be of length one, giving the time zone

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: 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

Hi , For our production package i need to create a dataframein C . So I wrote the following code SEXP dfm ,head,df , dfint , dfStr,lsnm; *SEXP valueVector[2];* char *ab[3] = {"aa","vv","gy"}; int sn[3] ={99,89,12}; char *listnames[2] = {"int","string"}; int i,j; //============================= PROTECT(df = allocVector(VECSXP,2));

Hi , I am trying to create a dataframe in C and sebd it back to R. Can anyone point me to the part of the source code where it is doing , let me explain the problem I am having . -------------------------------------------------------------------- My simple implementation is like this SEXP formDF() { SEXP dfm ,df , dfint , dfStr,lsnm; char *ab[3] =

I'm trying to generate an R interface for a library that's commonly used and I'm currently writing wrapper functions for file i/o and return an object (list?) that contains the elements of the C structure. For example, reading a file that contains: struct CONFIG_RECORD { char coeffs_filename[256]; char species_filename[256]; unsigned long

Hi, I thought it would be convenient if the check.names argument to read.table, which currently can only be TRUE/FALSE, could take a function value as well. If the function is supplied it should be used instead of the default make.names. Here is an example where it can come in handy. I tend to keep my data in coma-separated files with a header line. The header line is prefixed with a comment

man for `qr` says that the function uses LINPACK's DQRDC, while it in fact uses DQRDC2. ``` The QR decomposition of the matrix as computed by LINPACK or LAPACK. The components in the returned value correspond directly to the values returned by DQRDC/DGEQP3/ZGEQP3 ```

Hi, Is it possible to modify an object in the parent.env (as opposed to re-bind)? Here is what I tried: > x = 1:3 # try to modify the first element of x from within a new environment > local(get("x", parent.env(environment()))[1] <- NA) Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Target of assignment expands to non-language object # On the other hand retrieval works just fine >

Hi, This is not an R question per ce, but I feel like this is a right community to ask it. As a part of our work we run a lot of non-interactive computational jobs. To increase the throughput we would like to distribute the load over the entire network and we are looking at Linux network as a platform. Ideally we would like to be able to submit a job to the network, rather than to a computer, and

Hi, I tried to write the dim method for the list class, but R doesn't seem to dispatch to it: > dim.list = function(x) c(length(x[[1]]), length(x)) > dim(list(1)) NULL > dim.list(list(1)) [1] 1 1 What is the correct way of registering dim.list with .Primitive("dim")? Thanks, Vadim [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am looking for an efficient way of skipping big chunks of lines on a connection (not necessarily at the beginning of the file). One way is to use read lines, e.g. readLines(1e6), but a) this incurs the overhead of construction of the return char vector and b) has a (fairly remote) potential to blow up the memory. Another way would be to use scan(), e.g. scan(con, skip=1e6, nmax=0)