Le 19 juin 2014 à 00:15, Tim Keitt <tke...@utexas.edu> a écrit :

> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Romain Francois <rom...@r-enthusiasts.com> 
> wrote:
> Le 18 juin 2014 à 23:54, Tim Keitt <tke...@utexas.edu> a écrit :
> 
> 
>> I'd like to raise a condition other than error or warning. Is that possible 
>> using the Rcpp api? I assume this can be done via R internals, but I'd 
>> prefer not to call error() directly (or is that the recommendation?).
>> 
>> THK
> 
> Definitely not. Rf_error should really only be called from C code. If you 
> call it from C++, there is a great chance you'll lose determinism as 
> destructors for your c++ objects are very likely not to be called. Most of 
> the time, it will just mean you'll never release some objects to the garbage 
> collector, but it could also get you leaks or other nice stuff depending on 
> what your destructors were supposed to do and did not get a chance to do.  
> 
> That was my understanding. Just wanted to be sure it was still the case.
>  
> 
> I'm not sure Rcpp has a way to raise an R condition apart from calling stop, 
> which usually is good enough. Otherwise, you can borrow from Rcpp11 and adapt 
> some code from 
> https://github.com/Rcpp11/Rcpp11/blob/450aade7338c16c34618ad0916003e8ca4fb58a6/inst/include/Rcpp/Condition.h
> 
> Ah. I see. Eval "stop" in the global env with the condition as the argument. 
> Clever.

It is more of a hack due to lack of proper api from R. 

If you do this, make sure you don't have any c++ object in scope. Essentially 
that means you would evaluate `stop( condition )` in a top level catch block. 
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