On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Christian Sigg <christ...@sigg-iten.ch> wrote:
> I am developing R functions that interface with C++ code from the OpenCV
> library. During development and unit testing, I embed an R instance to
> prepare the environment in which the function encapsulating OpenCV code is
> called.
>
> Running the unit testing suite results in starting (and later terminating) an
> embedded R instance for each test. This produces a series of error messages
> when Rf_initEmbeddedR is called for the second time.
To my best knowledge you cannot init R more than once in the same process.
There are many global variables that rely on being initialized by the data
segment. Supporting re-init of R would be a considerable effort as many of
those are static so there is no simple way to re-set them.
Cheers,
Simon
> This error is reproduced by running
>
> #include <Rembedded.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>
> Rf_initEmbeddedR(argc, argv);
> Rf_endEmbeddedR(0);
>
> Rf_initEmbeddedR(argc, argv);
> Rf_endEmbeddedR(0);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> which outputs the following two lines
>
> Error: bad target context--should NEVER happen;
> please bug.report() [R_run_onexits]
>
> a great number of times (this is on OS X 10.7 with Xcode 4.4.1, version
> 4.4.0.0.1.124936715 of the command line tools and R 2.15.1).
>
> Debugging the above program indicates that the error happens in
> installFunTab(). Not knowing R internals, I can only guess that state from
> the first embedded instance leaks into the second instance.
>
> Soeren Sonnenburg asked a similar question on March 5th 2009 but there was no
> reply. He also mentioned a bug report
>
> http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/trashcan?id=12644;user=guest;selectid=12644
>
> but that link no longer works and bug # 12644 is not in the current database.
>
> Can the above mentioned code be made to work?
>
> Thank you,
> Christian
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