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On Thursday, 9 February 2023 at 08:05:34 UTC+2 Jan Krynauw wrote: > Agree on this! > > We deal quite a bit with Financial Analysts, Actuaries and Accountants and > the world of R Scripts is massive. Moving traditional python scripts to > Proto defined and implemented using gRPC has been amazing. It would be > incredible to be able to transform the world of R into this pattern as well. > > On Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 12:55:23 UTC+2 Sanjit Rath wrote: > >> 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/ee5c10c6-88fb-4f74-89e3-a83e4cca1dc7n%40googlegroups.com.
