Revision: 671
http://rpy.svn.sourceforge.net/rpy/?rev=671&view=rev
Author: lgautier
Date: 2008-10-31 13:03:06 +0000 (Fri, 31 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
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notes about ending an R process
Modified Paths:
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branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/overview.rst
branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/rinterface.rst
Modified: branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/overview.rst
===================================================================
--- branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/overview.rst 2008-10-30 21:18:29 UTC
(rev 670)
+++ branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/overview.rst 2008-10-31 13:03:06 UTC
(rev 671)
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@
suite = rpy2.tests.suite()
tr.run(suite)
+.. note::
+ At the time of writing, 2 unit tests will fail. Their failure
+ is forced, because the terminating then starting again an
+ embbeded R is causing problems.
+
.. warning::
Win32 versions are still lacking some of the functionalities in the
Modified: branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/rinterface.rst
===================================================================
--- branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/rinterface.rst 2008-10-30 21:18:29 UTC
(rev 670)
+++ branches/rpy_nextgen/doc/source/rinterface.rst 2008-10-31 13:03:06 UTC
(rev 671)
@@ -60,7 +60,14 @@
your path (:envvar:`PATH` on unix-alikes, or :envvar:`Path` on Microsoft
Windows) or
have the environment variable :envvar:`R_HOME` defined.
+Ending R
+^^^^^^^^
+Ending the R process is possible, but starting it again with
+:func:`initr` does appear to lead to an R process that is hardly usable.
+For that reason, the use of :func:`endEmbeddedR` should be considered
+carefully.
+
R space and Python space
------------------------
@@ -672,9 +679,11 @@
Object-Oriented programming in R exists in several flavours, and one
of those is called `S4`.
It has its own type at R's C-API level, and because of that specificity
-we defined a class.
+we defined a class. Beside that, the class does not provide much specific
+features (see the pydoc for the class below).
-An instance's attributes can be accessed through the :class:`Sexp` method
+An instance's attributes can be accessed through the parent
+class :class:`Sexp` method
:meth:`do_slot`.
.. autoclass:: rpy2.rinterface.SexpS4(obj)
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