Rcpp and Roxygen2

Instructions for using Rcpp and Roxygen2 together. This assumes that Roxygen2 is managing your namespace:

DESCRIPTION

• In your DESCRIPTION file, add the line LinkingTo: Rcpp
• Also ensure that you import Rcpp, Imports: Rcpp along with all the other packages are imported in your namespace.

Package Documentation

Your package documentation (by convention in zzz.R or package.R) you should have the following:

#' your_package
#' 
#' Description of your package
#' 
#' @docType package
#' @author you <youremail>
#' @import Rcpp another_package another
#' @importFrom Rcpp evalCpp
#' @useDynLib your_package
#' @name your_package
NULL  

Functions

• Add *.cpp files to /src directory.
• Remember to use //' as your comment so that Roxygen2 picks it up appropriately.
• Remember to include [[Rcpp:export]] so that it is picked up by Rcpp::compileAttributes() when you build and reload or run roxygenize() manually as per your project options

#include <Rcpp.h>

using namespace Rcpp;

//' Leading NA
//' 
//' This function returns a logical vector identifying if 
//' there are leading NA, marking the leadings NA as TRUE and
//' everything else as FALSE.
//'
//' @param x An integer vector
//' @export
// [[Rcpp::export]]
LogicalVector leading_na(IntegerVector x) {  
  int n = x.size();
  LogicalVector leading_na(n);

  int i = 0;
  while((i < n) &&(x[i] == NA_INTEGER)) {
    leading_na[i] = TRUE;
    i++;
  }
  return leading_na;
}