I'd like to develop, if there is not one already, an interface between R code and Haskell code, to allow R code to call Haskell (compiled) code, and vice-versa. But in the interest of not reinventing the wheel, does anyone on this list know of existing bindings for Haskell code?
There is support for loading plugins in Haskell, and for an eval() like set of functions provided by the Haskell hs-plugin package that evaluates arbitrary strings in the IO monad. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/hs-plugins/paper/ describes this functionality. For example: #include <stdio.h> #include "RunHaskell.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int *p; hs_init(&argc, &argv); p = hs_eval_i("foldl1 (+) [0 .. 10]"); /* this is Haskell code */ printf("%d\n", *p); hs_exit(); } That said, i don't think it will be that difficutl. But I imagine the hardest part of this will be getting the memory management for garbage collection right. I thought I would start by looking at how the rJava or rJython packages handle memory. If anyone has pointers or advice on integrating R's garbage collection with another language's garbage collection, I'd welcome suggestions and warnings about pitfalls. Thanks, Jason -- Jason E. Aten, Ph.D. j.e.a...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
