Rcpp 0.7.5

Dirk released Rcpp 0.7.5 yesterday

The main thing is the smarter wrap function that now uses techniques of type traits and template meta-programming to have a compile time guess at whether an object is wrappable, and how to do it. Currently wrappable types are :

• primitive types : int, double, Rbyte, Rcomplex
• std::string
• STL containers such as std::vector<T> as long as T is wrappable. This is not strictly tied to the STL, actually any type that has a nested type called iterator and member functions begin() and end() will do
• STL maps keyed by strings such as std::map<std::string,T> as long as T is wrappable
• any class that can be implicitely converted to SEXP
• any class for which the wrap template is partly or fully specialized. (The next version of RInside has an example of that)

Here comes an example (from our unit tests) :

        funx <- cfunction(signature(), 
        '
        std::map< std::string,std::vector<int> > m ;
        std::vector<int> b ; b.push_back(1) ; b.push_back(2) ; m["b"] = b ;
        std::vector<int> a ; a.push_back(1) ; a.push_back(2) ; a.push_back(2) ; m["a"] = a ;
        std::vector<int> c ; c.push_back(1) ; c.push_back(2) ; c.push_back(2) ; c.push_back(2) ; m["c"] = c ;
        return wrap(m) ;
        ', 
        Rcpp=TRUE, verbose=FALSE, includes = "using namespace Rcpp;" )


R> funx()
$a
[1] 1 2 2

$b
[1] 1 2

$c
[1] 1 2 2 2

Apart from that, other things have changed, here is the relevant section of the NEWS for this release

    o 	wrap has been much improved. wrappable types now are :
    	- primitive types : int, double, Rbyte, Rcomplex, float, bool
    	- std::string
    	- STL containers which have iterators over wrappable types:
    	  (e.g. std::vector, std::deque, std::list, etc ...). 
    	- STL maps keyed by std::string, e.g std::map
    	- classes that have implicit conversion to SEXP
    	- classes for which the wrap template if fully or partly specialized
    	This allows composition, so for example this class is wrappable: 
    	std::vector<  std::map > (if T is wrappable)
    	
    o 	The range based version of wrap is now exposed at the Rcpp::
    	level with the following interface : 
    	Rcpp::wrap( InputIterator first, InputIterator last )
    	This is dispatched internally to the most appropriate implementation
    	using traits

    o	a new namespace Rcpp::traits has been added to host the various
    	type traits used by wrap

    o 	The doxygen documentation now shows the examples

    o 	A new file inst/THANKS acknowledges the kind help we got from others

    o	The RcppSexp has been removed from the library.
    
    o 	The methods RObject::asFoo are deprecated and will be removed
    	in the next version. The alternative is to use as.

    o	The method RObject::slot can now be used to get or set the 
    	associated slot. This is one more example of the proxy pattern
    	
    o	Rcpp::VectorBase gains a names() method that allows getting/setting
    	the names of a vector. This is yet another example of the 
    	proxy pattern.
    	
    o	Rcpp::DottedPair gains templated operator> that 
    	allow wrap and push_back or wrap and push_front of an object
    	
    o	Rcpp::DottedPair, Rcpp::Language, Rcpp::Pairlist are less
    	dependent on C++0x features. They gain constructors with up
    	to 5 templated arguments. 5 was choosed arbitrarily and might 
    	be updated upon request.
    	
    o	function calls by the Rcpp::Function class is less dependent
    	on C++0x. It is now possible to call a function with up to 
    	5 templated arguments (candidate for implicit wrap)
    	
    o	added support for 64-bit Windows (thanks to Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges)