RInside is a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications. It works particularly well with Rcpp and now depends on it.

This is the first release since version 0.2.1 in early January. Romain and I made numerous changes to Rcpp in the meantime. With this release, RInside is starting to catch up by taking advantage of many new automatic (templated) type converters. We have updated the existing examples, and added several new ones. These are all visibile directly via the Doxygen-generated documentation under the Files heading. Two examples are also shown directly on the RInside page.

Also added are new examples showing how to use RInside to embed R inside C++ applications using MPI for parallel computing. This was contributed via two examples files by Jianping Hua, and we reworked the examples slightly (and added two variants that use MPI’s C++ API).

As it is so short, here is the basic ‘Hello, World’ example now showing the simpler Rcpp-based variable assignment:

// -*- mode: C++; c-indent-level: 4; c-basic-offset: 4;  tab-width: 8; -*-
//
// Simple example showing how to do the standard 'hello, world' using embedded R
//
// Copyright (C) 2009 Dirk Eddelbuettel
// Copyright (C) 2010 Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois
//
// GPL'ed

#include <RInside.h>                    // for the embedded R via RInside

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    RInside R(argc, argv);              // create an embedded R instance

    R["txt"] = "Hello, world!\n";	// assign a char* (string) to 'txt'

    R.parseEvalQ("cat(txt)");           // eval the init string, ignoring any returns

    exit(0);
}

One minor setback is that the examples currently segfault on Windows. That may be an issue with linking and class instantiation or something related. Romain and I focus much more on Linux and OS X, so this has not gotten a lot of attention. Debugging help would be appreciated.