> On Apr 23, 2024, at 10:29 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>
> wrote:
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> > On Apr 22, 2024, at 7:37 PM, Gabriel Becker <gabembec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Yutani,
> >
> > ALTREP is part of the official R api, as illustrated by the presence of
> > src/include/R_ext/Altrep.h. Everything declared in the header files in that
> > directory is official API AFAIK (and I believe that is more definitive than
> > the manuals).
> >
>
> That is not true at all - the presence of header does not constitute
> declaration of something as the R API. There are cases where internal
> functions are in the headers for historical or other reasons since the
> headers are used both for the internal implementation and packages. That's
> why this is in R-exts under "The R API: entry points for C code":
>
> If I understand your point correctly, does this mean that Rf_allocVector() is
> not part of the "official" R API? It does not appear to be documented in the
> "The R API: entry points for C code" section.
>
It does, obviously:
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Allocating-storage-1
Cheers,
Simon
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