[Rcpp-devel] RInside status
Hi, I would like to know the status of the RInside project. In the Subversion repository on R-Forge, the description file says the version is 0.2.10.1 ( https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/DESCRIPTION?view=markup&root=rinside) and here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside/ the latest version is 0.2.11 But in both cases, the code is at least 3 to 5 years old. I would like to use it to embed R in a software I'm writing and give the users the possibility to write their "plugins" to my software in R. So far my users can use Python to do that (thanks to Boost.Python). The problem is as follow: the C++ code will instantiate and call R objects and the R objects should be able to access other C++ objects and call C++ functions too. The C++ objects cannot be copied to R. In Boost.Python, it happily works, so now I want to add support for R too. So has this project been abandonned ? Is there anything else than RInside I should use ? Maybe Rcpp has everything to do that now and RInside is not needed anymore ? Best regards, David ___ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
Re: [Rcpp-devel] RInside status
David,
On 27 February 2017 at 11:19, David Bellot wrote:
| I would like to know the status of the RInside project. In the Subversion
| repository on R-Forge, the description file says the version is 0.2.10.1 (
We, not unlike many other people, have been a little sloppy in closing the
OLD and ABANDONED svn repository when moving to GitHub.
You should look at CRAN for current and meaningful hints. Start at
https://cloud.r-project.org/package=RInside # CDN, mirrored
https://cran.r-project.org/package=RInside # Vienna, main host
where the DESCRIPTION file with its BugReports URL points to GitHub:
R> packageDescription("RInside")[["BugReports"]]
[1] "https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside/issues";
R>
It is true that my page at
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside.html
also points at the SVN (which I'll fix now) but it _also_ contains a more
current ChangeLog subset.
Google points me (even in no-cookie, anon mode) to GitHub too for I search
for 'RInside source code'. GitHub is second, the SVN in not in the top-ten.
| https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/DESCRIPTION?view=markup&root=
| rinside) and here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside/ the latest
version
| is 0.2.11
| But in both cases, the code is at least 3 to 5 years old.
RInside uses Rcpp to talk R, making use of the _embedding API_ of R.
As R is *very* good at maintaining its interfaces, we have not needed many
changes for RInside. It. Just. Works.
| I would like to use it to embed R in a software I'm writing and give the users
| the possibility to write their "plugins" to my software in R. So far my users
| can use Python to do that (thanks to Boost.Python). The problem is as follow:
| the C++ code will instantiate and call R objects and the R objects should be
| able to access other C++ objects and call C++ functions too. The C++ objects
| cannot be copied to R. In Boost.Python, it happily works, so now I want to add
| support for R too.
|
| So has this project been abandonned ? Is there anything else than RInside I
| should use ?
It is alive and well. Just this month I committed a rather nice new
user-contributed example.
| Maybe Rcpp has everything to do that now and RInside is not needed anymore ?
You misunderstand how one embed R. You very much want RInside, and it will
work just fine for your use case -- which is what it was made for.
Cheers, Dirk
--
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
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Re: [Rcpp-devel] RInside status
thanks a lot for your swift and accurate answer. Very much appreciated !
so indeed RInside is what I need exactly as my problem was indeed to embed
R into another software and not just to wrap a C++ library to be used in R.
Cheers,
David
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> David,
>
> On 27 February 2017 at 11:19, David Bellot wrote:
> | I would like to know the status of the RInside project. In the Subversion
> | repository on R-Forge, the description file says the version is 0.2.10.1
> (
>
> We, not unlike many other people, have been a little sloppy in closing the
> OLD and ABANDONED svn repository when moving to GitHub.
>
> You should look at CRAN for current and meaningful hints. Start at
>
> https://cloud.r-project.org/package=RInside # CDN, mirrored
> https://cran.r-project.org/package=RInside # Vienna, main host
>
> where the DESCRIPTION file with its BugReports URL points to GitHub:
>
> R> packageDescription("RInside")[["BugReports"]]
> [1] "https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside/issues";
> R>
>
> It is true that my page at
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside.html
>
> also points at the SVN (which I'll fix now) but it _also_ contains a more
> current ChangeLog subset.
>
> Google points me (even in no-cookie, anon mode) to GitHub too for I search
> for 'RInside source code'. GitHub is second, the SVN in not in the
> top-ten.
>
> | https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/
> DESCRIPTION?view=markup&root=
> | rinside) and here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rinside/ the latest
> version
> | is 0.2.11
> | But in both cases, the code is at least 3 to 5 years old.
>
> RInside uses Rcpp to talk R, making use of the _embedding API_ of R.
>
> As R is *very* good at maintaining its interfaces, we have not needed many
> changes for RInside. It. Just. Works.
>
> | I would like to use it to embed R in a software I'm writing and give the
> users
> | the possibility to write their "plugins" to my software in R. So far my
> users
> | can use Python to do that (thanks to Boost.Python). The problem is as
> follow:
> | the C++ code will instantiate and call R objects and the R objects
> should be
> | able to access other C++ objects and call C++ functions too. The C++
> objects
> | cannot be copied to R. In Boost.Python, it happily works, so now I want
> to add
> | support for R too.
> |
> | So has this project been abandonned ? Is there anything else than
> RInside I
> | should use ?
>
> It is alive and well. Just this month I committed a rather nice new
> user-contributed example.
>
> | Maybe Rcpp has everything to do that now and RInside is not needed
> anymore ?
>
> You misunderstand how one embed R. You very much want RInside, and it will
> work just fine for your use case -- which is what it was made for.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
>
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