xptr: Manipulating External Pointers

There is limited native support for external pointers in the R interface. This package provides some basic tools to verify, create and modify 'externalptr' objects.

Version: 1.2.0
Published: 2025-10-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.xptr
Author: Randy Lai [aut], Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/xptr/, https://eddelbuettel.github.io/xptr/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS, ChangeLog
CRAN checks: xptr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: xptr.html , xptr.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: xptr_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: xptr_1.2.0.zip, r-release: xptr_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: xptr_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): xptr_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): xptr_1.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): xptr_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): xptr_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: xptr archive

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