My company is also very much interested in using gRPC for microservices with R code in it! On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:17:51 PM UTC-8 Jan Krynauw wrote:
> Not sure whether this is allowed, but we are willing to reward anyone able > to look into this: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01699f5b31ffbebb9b > > 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. 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