From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Apr 14 23:12:50 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Apr 14 23:13:08 2005
Subject: [Rd] dynamic array output by .C
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Tib wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am building a stochastic simulation model in a C++ shared library
> for R. My model will generate a random number of new observations and
> also delete some old observations, however, the numbers cannot be
> predicted before the computation engine runs. For simplicity, I am
> trying to control my programming at the second stage (pure C++ for R).
> It seems .C accepts fixed size of arrays as input (also ouput), can I
> modify size of array for deleting old and adding new observations in
> .C?

No, but .Call can.

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[Rd] dynamic array output by .C
Prof Brian Ripley