Hi J.J., that makes it precise! As I see now also in RcppArmadillo the naming inlineCxxPlugin is used and this is the 'identifier' as you say. Great! I modify my code to make use of this pattern.
Thank you for your response! Simon On Oct 12, 2013, at 1:01 AM, JJ Allaire <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon, > > To make a plugin available for use with both inline and Rcpp attributes you > need only define a function named "inlineCxxPlugin" within your package > (which can in turn call Rcpp.plugin.maker). This allow you to use it with > inline as well as Rcpp::depends. > > I think this is the scenario you are targeting (since you are writing a > package). The registerPlugin function is used when you want to make available > a plugin that isn't part of a package (e.g. for some type of ad-hoc > complier/linker recipe you need to cook up). > > J.J. > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simon, > > On 11 October 2013 at 23:43, Simon Zehnder wrote: > | I have a very short question in regard to plugins in packages. I have > written my own plugin using Rcpp.plugin.maker (very well documented in FAQ > btw). > | > | I know, that on the command line calling registerPlugin() registers the > plugin. From RcppArmadillo I can see, that the registerPlugin function is > never called inside the package - but I see also, that the file is called > inline.R. How does the inline package register/identify a plugin? Is a plugin > registered automatically when called inside cxxfunction? Does it have to be > put into a file called 'inline.R'? > > What is your actual intent? To support inline? To support Rcpp Attributes? > > I have not looked at this in a while, but I think we may not actually > required registration (ie there is no run-time state vector accumulating > plugin callbacks...) but when a plugin is invoked, it points to a package and > hence the package namespace is searched and a corresponding function is > called. > > This is from memory. Actual details may differ. Void where prohibited :) > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
