Thanks again Romain. Now that you mention it I remember.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Romain Francois <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 18/11/10 22:31, Douglas Bates a écrit : >> >> My C++ coding style (such as it is) has been influenced by reading >> Frank Bokken's "C++ Annotations". I keep most data members of classes >> private or protected and usually with names like d_x, d_y, d_weights, >> etc. then provide accessor functions named x, y, weights, etc. >> Generally the accessors return const references. >> >> If I export such a class in an Rcpp module I can't allow field access >> but can allow access from R to the accessor methods. This seems >> slightly awkward in that the user must know to use >> >> myRefObj$x() >> >> instead of >> >> myRefObj$x >> >> to access the x field. Any strong opinions about fields access versus >> access to field accessor methods? >> >> As an example, one of my classes ends up looking like this >> >>> getRefClass("Rcpp_lmResp") >> >> Generator object for class "Rcpp_lmResp": >> >> No fields defined >> >> Class Methods: >> "callSuper", "export", "finalize", "import", "initFields", >> "initialize", "mu", >> "offset", "sqrtrwt", "sqrtXwt", "updateMu", "updateWts", "wrss", "wtres", >> "y" >> >> >> Reference Superclasses: >> "envRefClass" >> >> but all those methods except updateMu and updateWts are field accessors. >> >> One advantage of this method is that one can't make changes to those >> fields at the R level, which I like because I am paranoid about >> introducing inconsistencies in the fields. > > You can use .property instead of .field to short circuit x back to d_x. > > Consider this class (which I believe follows the convention you mention): > > class Simple { > public: > > Simple( double x ) : d_x(x){} ; > > const double& x(){ return d_x ;} > > private: > double d_x ; > > } ; > > In R, you'd want to be able to do : > > r <- new( Simple, 10 ) > r$x > > but not : > > r$x <- 20 > > > > Then .property is what you need: > > RCPP_MODULE(mod){ > > class_<Simple>( "Simple" ) > > .constructor(init_1<double>()) > .property( "x" , &Simple::x ) > > ; > } > > > When the third argument is not given, the property is considered read only. > > Romain > > -- > Romain Francois > Professional R Enthusiast > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > |- http://bit.ly/9VOd3l : ZAT! 2010 > |- http://bit.ly/c6DzuX : Impressionnism with R > `- http://bit.ly/czHPM7 : Rcpp Google tech talk on youtube > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
