On 24/05/2013 15:55, Jan van der Laan wrote:

Thanks. That does the trick. Although I now have to rewrite some other
stuff, but I have just started so better now than later.

To be honest, a first and even a second read of the r-extensions manual
did not really make it clear, to me at least, that Rdefines.h is
preferred above Rinternals.h. Now that I reread it again, I can see a
slight preference for Rdefines.h, but you really have to read closely.

That's backwards.  Rinternals.h is the definitive version, used by R itself.


Thanks again.

Jan


Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> schreef:

On 24/05/2013 07:53, Jan van der Laan wrote:

I am trying to use R_RegisterCFinalizerEx to ensure some c++ object is
properly deleted after use. However, I run into some problems when
trying to pass in the third argument which is an Rboolean.  The line
'R_RegisterCFinalizerEx(p, finalizer, TRUE);' generates the following
error when trying to compile using R CMD SHLIB:

g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -O2 -pipe -g  -c
rboolean.cpp -o rboolean.o
rboolean.cpp: In function ?SEXPREC* create(SEXP)?:
rboolean.cpp:21:46: error: invalid conversion from ?int? to ?Rboolean?
[-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/share/R/include/Rdefines.h:29:0,
                 from rboolean.cpp:4:
/usr/share/R/include/Rinternals.h:764:6: error:   initializing argument
3 of ?void R_RegisterCFinalizerEx(SEXP, R_CFinalizer_t, Rboolean)?
[-fpermissive]
make: *** [rboolean.o] Error 1


I have managed to reduce the problem to the example below:

===== foo.cpp =====
#include <R.h>
#include <Rdefines.h>

void foo() {
  Rboolean b = TRUE;
}
==================

With the extension .cpp this generates the error above, with the
extension .c (don't put both in the same directory; at least not with
the same name) it compiles without errors or warnings.

When looking at the headers (R_ext/Boolean.h and Rdefines.h) it seems
that TRUE and FALSE are also defined as constants which seems to
conflict with the enum values of Rboolean.

For now I use the compiler flag -fpermissive (as suggested by g++), but
I suppose this is not acceptable when submitting to CRAN. Am I doing
something wrong? Is there a workaround/solution?

Don't use Rdefines.h: use Rinternals.h.

Rdefines.h was for compatibility with S code from the 1990s: it is not
kept up to date.


Thanks.

Jan


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Brian D. Ripley,                  rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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--
Brian D. Ripley,                  rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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