Re: [R-pkg-devel] C++17

2021-07-30 Thread Tim Keitt
Kind of figured that out looking around on github. I added a config (borrowed from one of your repos) to test for CXX17. I'm not sure its quite working for me yet but I will figure it out. A couple of questions: 1) I had C++17 in the system requirements in the description file but might remove it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] C++17

2021-07-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Section 2.7.3 'C++ Support' of the R Admin manual says, "C++ is not used by R itself, but support is provided ...". This is all stored from when R itself is configure (prior to compiling) and override-able in package configuration (Section 2.7.3 covers that) but as that in other places _it all d

Re: [R-pkg-devel] C++17

2021-07-30 Thread Steve Bronder
Hi Tim, if you look in the history of the mailing list there's been a few questions surrounding c++17. But most of what I've seen is to have flags to turn on and off the c++17 parts of your code. I get it, and not impossible to do cleanly with boost macros, but kind of a bummer. It would be nice t

[R-pkg-devel] Question on proper methods documentation for R package with multiple S4 classes

2021-07-30 Thread Ioana Bouros
Hello, We are trying to build an R package with more than two S4 classes that have common methods. However, when checking the methods part of the documentation for the second class, we see only the definition of the generic of the first class. For illustration, we can call these two classes