Davor, Kevin, Allow to get into this intra-Vancouver exchange as I too dislike the sound of "but this used to work"....
A simple modifcation (see below) seems to do the trick: R> sourceCpp("/tmp/davor.cpp") R> getString(c("The", "quick", "brown", "fox"), 2) [1] "brown" R> getString(c("The", "quick", "brown", "fox"), 0) [1] "The" R> Here I do in fact go via char*. I too have the feeling that that didn't use to be necessary --- but then "fear not" as we are currently getting better string classes in Rcpp thanks to Romain (and to Hadley for funding). So I would just sit tight and wait things. And maybe send us a new unit test for two as the dozen or so we have for CharacterVector didn't catch this. Dirk (hoping he understands what Davor was after in the first place...) #include <Rcpp.h> using namespace Rcpp; // [[Rcpp::export]] std::string getString(CharacterVector cv, int pos) { char *c = cv[pos]; std::string s(c); return s; } -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel