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Modern Interfaces to C Code

The .Call function offers a higher degree of flexibility than .C in terms of passing and returning R arrays or dataframes. The example below shows how to use .Call to implement the same functionality as the .C example above. The type SEXP represents an R object. The REAL macro returns a pointer to the corresponding memory for reading or writing to it. Here's an example:

#include <R.h>
#include <Rinternals.h>
#include <Rmath.h>
#include <math.h>
SEXP fooC2(SEXP aR, SEXP  bR)
{ 
  int i, j, n = length(aR);
  double *a = REAL(aR), *b = REAL(bR);
  SEXP Rval = allocVector(REALSXP, n);
  
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    REAL(Rval)[i] = 0;
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
      REAL(Rval)[i] += pow(a[j] + i + 1, b[j]);
  }
  return Rval;
}

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