What are you planning for 2016?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 08:24:59 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
>> I've just finished with the initial version of my project to 
>> embed R inside D. Hopefully now I can convince other 
>> economists to use it.
>>
>> I might put together a simple web interface (using D of 
>> course) that will improve my research collaboration efforts. 
>> The earliest I will have time to work on it will be the summer.
>
> How does this work? Do you write R programs which are executed 
> by a D program?
> Or do you call functions in D which corresponds to R functions?

Either direction. Earlier I wrote dmdinline[1]. You can write 
small D functions and call them from R. It works well on Linux, 
but not on anything else. That makes it hard to collaborate.

In the other direction, you write a D program with an embedded R 
instance as with RInside. You do anything you want with your R 
interpreter. Importantly, it works on all OSes that run R.

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.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/bachmeil/dmdinline2