From mail at joeconway.com  Wed Aug 27 10:44:11 2003
From: mail at joeconway.com (Joe Conway)
Date: Wed Aug 27 18:48:04 2003
Subject: [Rd] declarations in non-exported headers and embedding R
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Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Some of it is certainly a well-known shortcoming of the set of
> exports. E.g. tcltk.c has had
> 
> /* From Parse.h -- must find better solution: */
> #define PARSE_NULL              0
> #define PARSE_OK                1
> #define PARSE_INCOMPLETE        2
> #define PARSE_ERROR             3
> #define PARSE_EOF               4
> 
> SEXP R_ParseVector(SEXP, int, int *);
> 
> for a couple of years (not that it gets much use since that interface
> is mostly in the opposite direction). Adding an Rembedding.h or so could
> be a good idea. However, it's not really my field of expertise and a
> couple ofother R core members might have strong opinions on what
> should be made available and how...

Thanks for your reply, Peter.

Do you think a patch against a current development snapshot would be 
considered? If so, should it be sent to this list, or to someone else in 
R core directly?

Thanks,

Joe


[Rd] declarations in non-exported headers and embedding R
Joe Conway