How to get integer rownames in Rcpp?

Question

Working off of these two posts
1. Convert char to int in C and C++
2. http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/2010-July/000932.html

I'm trying to get the rownames from an Rcpp Matrix (NumericMatrix, etc) as an IntegerVector.

In R, this would be:

as.integer(rownames(x)) # where x is a matrix

I've tried casting in two different ways and am getting different compilation errors:

attempt 1

cppFunction('IntegerVector rownames1(NumericMatrix x) {
            List dimnames = x.attr("dimnames");
            CharacterVector rownames = dimnames[0];
            IntegerVector out(dimnames.size());
            for (int i= 0; i < out.size(); i++) {
              out[i] = (int) rownames[i]; // cast via (int)
            }

            return (IntegerVector) dimnames[0];}')

file1b9c6dec3c12.cpp: In function 'Rcpp::IntegerVector rownames1(Rcpp::NumericMatrix)': file1b9c6dec3c12.cpp:11:40: error: invalid cast from type 'Rcpp::Vector<16>::Proxy {aka Rcpp::internal::string_proxy<16>}' to type 'int' make: *** [file1b9c6dec3c12.o] Error 1 Warning message: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)' SHLIB="sourceCpp_23.dll" WIN=64 TCLBIN=64 OBJECTS="file1b9c6dec3c12.o"' had status 2

attempt 2

cppFunction('IntegerVector rownames1(NumericMatrix x) {
            List dimnames = x.attr("dimnames");
            CharacterVector rownames = dimnames[0];
            IntegerVector out(dimnames.size());
            for (int i= 0; i < out.size(); i++) {
              out[i] = rownames[i] + "0"; // cast as suggested in SO post linked above
            }

            return (IntegerVector) dimnames[0];}')

file1b9c71d25b92.cpp: In function 'Rcpp::IntegerVector rownames1(Rcpp::NumericMatrix)': file1b9c71d25b92.cpp:11:38: error: ambiguous overload for 'operator-' in 'Rcpp::Vector::operator [with int RTYPE = 16, StoragePolicy = Rcpp::PreserveStorage, Rcpp::Vector::Proxy = Rcpp::internal::string_proxy<16>, R_xlen_t = long long int](((long long int)i)) - "0"' file1b9c71d25b92.cpp:11:38: note: candidates are: file1b9c71d25b92.cpp:11:38: note: operator-(const char*, const char*) file1b9c71d25b92.cpp:11:38: note: operator-(const char*, const char*) file1b9c71d25b92.cpp:11:38: note: operator-(char*, char*) make: *** [file1b9c71d25b92.o] Error 1 Warning message: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)' SHLIB="sourceCpp_21.dll" WIN=64 TCLBIN=64 OBJECTS="file1b9c71d25b92.o"' had status 2

Any help appreciated!

@alexis_laz Could you be a little more specific please? What namespace is coerceVector in? I'm getting not-in-scope / not in namespace Rcpp errors — Alex W
coerceVector is, kind of, the C equivalent of as(..) in R's API. Sorry, though, I'm not familiar with why you get these errors in Rcpp. — alexis_laz
@alexis_laz hmm... I think you've pointed me in the right direction, or, at least, in a positive direction. Sadly, that direction appears to be wading through the rather lengthy R-extensions manual---thanks, I think — Alex W

nrussell nrussell · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-09T22:00:45

You can use the cstdlib function atoi to convert from const char* to int. For example,

#include <Rcpp.h>

// [[Rcpp::export]]
Rcpp::IntegerVector rownames1(Rcpp::NumericMatrix x) {
    Rcpp::List dimnames = x.attr("dimnames");
    Rcpp::CharacterVector rownames = dimnames[0];
    Rcpp::IntegerVector out(rownames.size());

    std::transform(rownames.begin(), rownames.end(), out.begin(), std::atoi);

    return out;
}


/*** R

M <- matrix(
    1.5:16.5, nrow = 4, 
    dimnames = list(1:4, 1:4))
##
R> all.equal(rownames1(M), as.integer(row.names(M)))
#[1] TRUE

*/

How to get integer rownames in Rcpp?

attempt 1

attempt 2

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