[Rd] Embedding R in other applications as a scripting language

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Bryce,

On 14 October 2024 at 09:13, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| If you are willing to use C++ then RInside is a nice package that wraps the R API in C++ classes for easier use: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside simplifying it quite a bit.

Thanks for mention, Simon! And yes, embedding R is remarkably stable. Simon's
own rServe and rJava were early, and still provide a reference. There was
also (decades ago !) the embedding of R inside Postgres by Joe Conway. Jeff
later did RApache, this lead to littler on which I leaned for RInside.

Now, RInside may be of interest for two or three reason. First, it uses C++
and therefore abstract a few things (including the initialization) away into
an easy to use C++ class. Second, by being in C++ it can take advantage of
the templated converters to/from basic C/C++ types and class to R and back
making the use easier. Lastly, there are a number of examples included in the
source repo below inst/examples/ in seven different directories:
  https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside/tree/master/inst/examples

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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