example.C File Reference

Detailed Description

Simple example on how to use ROOT-R interface.

 
#include "TMath.h"
#include "Math/PdfFunc.h"
#include "TMatrixD.h"
#include "TError.h"
#include <array>
#include <vector>
#include "TRInterface.h"
 
void example() {
   ROOT::R::TRInterface &r = ROOT::R::TRInterface::Instance();
   // print R version
   r.Execute("print(version$version.string)");
 
   // compute standard deviation of 1000 vector normal numbers
 
   double std_dev_r  = r.Eval("sd(rnorm(10000))");
   std::vector<double> v = r.Eval("rnorm(10000)");
   double std_dev_root = TMath::StdDev(v.begin(),v.end());
   std::cout << "standard deviation from R    = " << std_dev_r << std::endl;
   std::cout << "standard deviation from ROOT = " <<  std_dev_root << std::endl;
   if (!TMath::AreEqualAbs(std_dev_r,std_dev_root,0.1))
      Error("ROOT-R-Example","Different std-dev found");
 
   // use << to execute the R command instead of Execute
   r << "mat<-matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6),2,3,byrow=TRUE)";
   TMatrixD m = r["mat"];
   std::array<double,6> a = r.Eval("seq(1:6)");
   TMatrixD m2(2,3,a.data());
 
   if  (!(m==m2)) {
      Error("ROOT-R-Example","Different matrix  found");
      m.Print();
      m2.Print();
   }
 
   // example on how to pass ROOT objects to R
   std::vector<double> v_root{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};
   r["v"] = v_root;
   r << "v2<-seq(1:8)";
   bool isEqual = r.Eval("prod(v==v2)");
   if (!isEqual) {
      Error("ROOT-R-Example","Different vector created");
      r << "print(v)";
      r << "print(v2)";
   }
 
   // example on how to pass functions to R
 
   r["gaus_pdf"] = ROOT::Math::normal_pdf;
 
   r << "y<-gaus_pdf(0,1,1)";
   double value_r = r["y"];
   double value_root = ROOT::Math::normal_pdf(0,1,1);
   std::cout << "Function gaussian(0,1,1) evaluated in  R    = " << value_r << std::endl;
   std::cout << "Function gaussian(0,1,1) evaluated in ROOT  = " <<  value_root << std::endl;
   if (value_r != value_root)
      Error("ROOT-R-Example","Different function value found in r = %f and ROOT = %f", value_r, value_root);
}

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Definition in file example.C.