Hi Thomas — no worries. Plasma is for brokering shared memory between processes. Here we are talking about passing data structures between the Python and R interpreter running in the same process.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 6:46 PM Thomas Browne <tho...@crvm.io> wrote: > Apols new user here - I thought this kind of use case is what the plasma > store was for? > > On 03/01/2021 00:20, Wes McKinney wrote: > > We can go R to/from Python from an R perspective with reticulate > > > > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/python.html > > > > There are unit tests attesting to this working: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/tests/testthat/test-python.R > > > > However, I don't know of anyone trying to get interop from a Python > > perspective with rpy2; there may be a small amount of plumbing needed > > to get it working, others may know more. > > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 5:20 PM Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am looking at sharing a pointer between Python and R. For example > create an Arrow object with Python, perform initial filtering, and then > pass a shared pointer to R through rpy2 (meaning that an R6 object is > created from this pointer and R package arrow). > >> > >> I found in the source a file that suggest thats Python-to-R is either > planned or may be even already functional: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/src/py-to-r.cpp > >> However, I did not find documentation about it. > >> > >> Would anyone here know more about this? > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Laurent > >> > >> >
