On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 08:24:59 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
I've just finished with the initial version of my project to
embed R inside D. Hopefully now I can convince other
economists to use it.
I might put together a simple web interface (using D of
course) that will improve my research collaboration efforts.
The earliest I will have time to work on it will be the summer.
How does this work? Do you write R programs which are executed
by a D program?
Or do you call functions in D which corresponds to R functions?
Either direction. Earlier I wrote dmdinline[1]. You can write
small D functions and call them from R. It works well on Linux,
but not on anything else. That makes it hard to collaborate.
In the other direction, you write a D program with an embedded R
instance as with RInside. You do anything you want with your R
interpreter. Importantly, it works on all OSes that run R.
The communication is the easy part. The time consuming part is
converting R objects to D objects and vice versa. I've had to
learn the internals of R at the same time that I've learned D.
I've been working on it in my spare time for more than two years.
[1] https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline2
