Maybe it is worth considering to document this functionality a bit more, or expose some wrappers in R? It's a bit obscure right now, which seems both dangerous in terms of maintenance and a missed opportunity (especially if people are already building on it).
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> wrote: > > Luke, > > Please keep me advised on this, because the Qt interfaces heavily rely on the > ObjectTables (btw, it has worked great for my use cases). > > Michael > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote: >> >> I believe everyone who has worked on the relevant files has tried to >> maintain this functionality, but as it seems to get used and tested >> very little I can't be sure it is functional at this point. The >> facility in its current form does complicate the internal code and >> limit some experiments we might otherwise do, so I would not be >> surprised if it was at least substantially changed in the next year or >> two. >> >> Best, >> >> luke >> >> >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Jeroen Ooms wrote: >> >>> I was wondering if anyone knows more about the state of RObjectTables. This >>> largely undocumented functionality was introduced by Duncan around 2002 >>> somewhere and enables you create an environment where the contents are >>> dynamically queried by R through a hook function. It is mentioned in R >>> Internals and ?attach. This functionality is quite powerful and allows you >>> to e.g. offload a big database of R objects to disk, yet use them as if >>> they were in your workspace. The recent RProtoBuf package also uses some of >>> this functionality to dynamically lookup proto definitions. >>> >>> I would like to do something similar, but I am not sure if support for this >>> functionality will be or has been discontinued. The RObjectTables package >>> is no longer available on OmegaHat and nothing has not been mentioned on >>> the mailing lists for about 5 years. I found an old version of the package >>> no github which seems to work, but as far as I understand, the package >>> still needs the hooks from within R to work. So if this functionality is >>> actually unsupported and might be removed at some point, I should probably >>> not invest in it. >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> -- >> Luke Tierney >> Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science >> Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences >> University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 >> Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 >> Actuarial Science >> 241 Schaeffer Hall email: luke-tier...@uiowa.edu >> Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel