What are you planning for 2016?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 21:40:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 19:39:44 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
>>> The communication is the easy part. The time consuming part 
>>> is converting R objects to D objects and vice versa. I've had 
>>> to learn the internals of R at the same time that I've 
>>> learned D. I've been working on it in my spare time for more 
>>> than two years.
>>
>> Would it have been possible to make a D API for data analysis 
>> instead? Or is that too big a job?
>
> You could program anything in D that would run in R and it 
> would probably be faster (unless the R code is using some 
> optimized C/C++ code already). The issue is that D libraries 
> for data analysis aren't as developed and don't have as many 
> people working on them as R. You might be more productive 
> calling an R library than re-writing the same functionality in 
> D.

In many cases, such as graphics, speed is not an issue so a 
rewrite won't help. By integrating R inside D, an existing R user 
gives up nothing - you can choose how much to write in D vs R.