Runtime dynamic access#198
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Also this has passed tests under Actions, so I will plan to merge it soon. |
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Do we have "char" or "string" as a type, e.g., function(varname = "string") { |
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Yes. Adding features for vectors (or potentially tensors) of strings is somewhere down the road, but we do have a scalar string type. |
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This PR provides support for
obj[[varname]]whereobjis an nClass object andvarnameis a string to access a variable in C++ by name at runtime. This returns anETaccessorBase(ET is for "Eigen Tensor". "Base" is for "base class".) That object can only be used through anasstatement, e.g.as(obj[[varname]], 'numericVector'). Even ifobj[[varname]]is not anumericVector, it will be handled as one if possible (i.e. if at runtime it is conformable to a vector, such as a higher dimensional tensor with all but one extent being 1). This PR also extendsasto handle true scalar types as the input or output type.