refactor to use cpp11?

[pachadotdev]

Is there any interest in moving from Rcpp to cpp11?

I could do that, I have been using my own fork of openxlsx to summarise tons of data into accessible spreadsheets in a server with restrictions and no direct internet connection. In that way, I can use vendoring to make the package 100% self-contained and dependency-free besides common packages authorised by IT.

[JanMarvin]

Hi @pachadotdev , thanks for reaching out, but I'm sorry, as the current maintainer I'm not interested. So unless you want to maintain it in your own fork, working on it would be a waste of time. I maintain openxlsx basically just to keep the package on CRAN - as a service to the many packages and tons of legacy code that still depend on it. And I understand that in certain environments it's not possible to install packages without IT's blessing, but Rcpp is probably not the dependency I'd worry about. If IT won't allow Rcpp, then hopefully they won't allow the hacky C++ code of openxlsx either. 😉

Apart from that, it looks from the outside as if cpp11 is a bit abandoned since Jim Hesters departure, but I haven't spent much time looking into it.

[pachadotdev]

Hi @pachadotdev , thanks for reaching out, but I'm sorry, as the current maintainer I'm not interested. So unless you want to maintain it in your own fork, working on it would be a waste of time. I maintain openxlsx basically just to keep the package on CRAN - as a service to the many packages and tons of legacy code that still depend on it. And I understand that in certain environments it's not possible to install packages without IT's blessing, but Rcpp is probably not the dependency I'd worry about. If IT won't allow Rcpp, then hopefully they won't allow the hacky C++ code of openxlsx either. 😉

Apart from that, it looks from the outside as if cpp11 is a bit abandoned since Jim Hesters departure, but I haven't spent much time looking into it.

good point! I got a reprimand a while ago for using non-ISO conventions in my own code

[pachadotdev]

Davis Vaughan seems to be an active cpp11 maintainer :)

[JanMarvin]

Thanks for understanding. I didn't want to put anybodies work down and like I've said, I haven't really looked into it.