[Rd] Compile R to WebAssembly / Emscripten?

[Scott Chamberlain]

Recently Michael Droettboom at Mozilla was asking around about
doing for R what they've done for Python here
https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide
with the Iodide project

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:47 AM Gabriel Becker <gabembecker using gmail.com>
wrote:

> As I recall, the major blocker is that R links against a number of other
> things (notably BLAS, pcre, etc) so while technically possible (?) I
> suppose, the universe of things you'd have to compile over and then get
> working is much larger than just the R internals.
>
> I think most people who consider this (including me years ago, as well as
> the poster of Gabor's message to rdevel) hit that point and then go try to
> find a less herculean task to pursue.
>
> ~G
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:57 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This was some time ago:
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-May/066724.html
> >
> > So probably not hopeless, but I would think it is a lot of work.
> >
> > Gabor
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:17 AM Todd Wilder <wildert using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone attempted to compile R (probably without any OS bindings) to
> > > WebAssembly / Emscripten? If so, how far did you get? (would be crazy
> > > awesome if you could get all the way to a ggplot bitmap output). If
> not,
> > is
> > > this a waste of time or is there some daylight to doing this?
> > >
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