I think it's important to use Rcpp. Not using Rcpp will require a bunch of extra work for little gain.
Hadley On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Clark Fitzgerald <clarkfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rcpp provides a friendlier interface between R and C++, similar to Cython > for Python. > > Do people have opinions on whether R / Arrow depends on Rcpp? Alternatively > the bindings can be written directly using R's C++ API. > > Here's a JIRA for work on R / Arrow: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1325 -- http://hadley.nz
