Add missing quotes in requireNamespace call

[agrueneberg]

The following happens if the Rcpp argument is TRUE in cfunction:

Loading required namespace: TRUE
Failed with error:  ‘there is no package called ‘TRUE’’

[eddelbuettel]

Ooops. Good catch. Thanks. And it probbaly want , quietly=TRUE as well.

Package probably needs a refresher anyway. [ But everybody should use Rcpp Attributes these days... ]

[agrueneberg]

Thanks! I only used the package because I needed to link Boost's iostreams for an inline benchmark and couldn't figure out how to do it with cppFunction and the likes.

[eddelbuettel]

Does iostream require a library for linking? Some of these can be used with and without linking, eg Boost Date_time can be used without parsers and formatters, in which case headers-only is good enough. And then you can get by with a plugin .... but that is maybe a discussion to be had on rcpp-devel.

[agrueneberg]

Yes, it looks like IOStreams is not header-only. I need it for parsing gzipped files without giving up on the convenience of using std::getline :P After some more tinkering I actually got it working with cppFunction: I forgot to set rebuild = TRUE after setting Sys.setenv("PKG_LIBS"="-lboost_iostreams"). Thanks for the pointer to rcpp-devel, will make sure to stop by!

[eddelbuettel]

Nice. You may be able to cheat as we get the compression library from R. See what I do in RcppCNpy to open compressed files. You could then go over the file pointer with std::getline, no?

[agrueneberg]

Thanks, I didn't know that zlib is bundled with R. I was looking at RcppCNpy and was wondering how you manage that dependency, so now I have my answer. I found a small library called Gzstream that provides an ifstream that can be used in std::getline, but then again, I also need regular expressions, so maybe Boost isn't so bad. Unless I switch to C++11, I guess. Anyway, I really appreciate the help! Rcpp has been a pleasure so far!

[eddelbuettel]

Yes, for some smaller packages where I didn't care that I might loose some users on really old systems I just turned C++11 on -- it even kinda sorta somewhat works on Windows with g++ 4.6.3, and gets rid of some issues (ie the stupid long long warnings).