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Rgetint

Rgetint


Purpose
Get the integer value of an R expression.
Synopsis
function Rgetint(cmd:string):integer
Argument
cmd 
Statements to evaluate
Return value
The result of the evaluation as an integer.
Example
The following example retrieves the length of the R entity vec into variable intvar:
 intvar:=Rgetint('length(vec)')
Further information
If cmd contains more than one statement, the returned value is the result of the last one. If the results is NA, then the R NA_Integer value (-2 31) is returned. The returned value is first converted to integer within R.
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