I came across this thread while searching for R support for gRPC. We are looking for ways to integrate R & Python, and Arrow libraries in between. I am good at C++ as well and have been through the gRPC stub generation code. Can someone from grpc.io please guide me here? I would be happy to get involved and support the RPort of the gRPC libraries.
On Monday, 28 November 2022 at 16:37:36 UTC+4 Ruan Spies wrote: > Such a delight to see this thread! We've also recently developed a need > for this in R and are also happy to get involved and pull in some of our > team as well. > > We operate primarily in the financial services space. Quite a lot of > people that we speak to, primarily actuaries, are big on R. We (Alis > Exchange <https://alisx.com/>) aim to empower business teams to build > their own Cloud Native services, rather than having to go through IT > departments, by building out a various utilities on top of Protocol Buffers > and GCP. We are all in on gRPC and believe that it is the best way to > design and build, but us and our clients are unable to truly use it. > > On the *client side*, a workaround has been to simply to do HTTP > transcoding and let people hit the HTTP endpoint, rather than using gRPC. > With this, you obviously lose the type definitions that are extremely > valuable. > > The bigger need is definitely being able to *implement a server* in R. We > want to enable business people to take their R scripts and formally make it > available as services, rather than just code on local devices. > > We have explored some > <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RProtoBuf/index.html> of the > <https://github.com/nfultz/grpc> packages people have built, but for > anyone who has extensively used gRPC in supported languages, the developer > experience is horrible - something that is officially supported, or at > least has proper community support, would be of great value. > > We really see a HUGE opportunity in helping business convert their R > scripts into proper APIs using gRPC and think that we will be able to drive > adoption of this in the financial industry. > > > On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 00:10:14 UTC+2 Jim Sheldon wrote: > >> Thanks for replying so quickly! >> >> R support would fill a need in the community I support (epi). Happy to >> discuss more, right now in the prototyping and planning phase (distributed >> pathogen tracking system). >> >> And thanks for sharing those resources! I will need to take a look more, >> and am happy to both get my hands dirty and get any additional guidance >> that's easily provided/readily available. >> >> Jim >> >> >> On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 1:20:39 PM UTC-5 rbel...@google.com >> wrote: >> >>> The core gRPC team does not currently have plans to extend support to R. >>> Frankly, this is the first request I've heard for R support. If there is a >>> need here, we'd love to hear more about it. >>> >>> With that said, gRPC is an open protocol and the gRPC Core codebase is >>> open source. The C++ Core API >>> <https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/include/grpc/grpc.h> is >>> designed specifically for use with foreign function interfaces like R's >>> <https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/Foreign>. >>> >>> This is how we implemented Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. My gut says that getting >>> a basic client working is about the size of a weekend project. We'd be >>> happy to give you (or anyone else) the guidance you'd need to get that off >>> the ground. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Richard Belleville >>> gRPC Team >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:50:03 AM UTC-8 Jim Sheldon wrote: >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> Are there plans to add gRPC to the R language? >>>> It would help coordinate work between software and science. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/54936074-12cc-464f-ab3d-989eeac1e378n%40googlegroups.com.
