Hello r-package-devel, I've made a package for R that uses Go (golang), the compiled language created by Rob Pike, Ken Thomson, Robert Griesemer, a team of Google employees, and thousands of open source volunteer contributors. See http://golang.org
My package, called RMQ for "R messaging and queuing" provides msgpack (supporting version 2 of msgpack) serialization and robust web-socket based RPC. The existing package for msgpackR in CRAN is for the outdated msgpack 1 standard, and can be very slow for some inputs, crashing on others. RMQ instead uses a highly optimized and compiled msgpack parsing library. RMQ also incorporates a hardened and well-tested websocket webserver framework from the Go world. The details of RMQ can be viewed at https://github.com/glycerine/rmq I view this as cutting edge work. It demonstrates for the first time how to integrate libraries written in Go with R. Complimenting the great library support in R, there are a quite some number of high quality libraries in Go; especially the networking, crypto, and big-integer libraries. Realistic integration between Go and R only became viable last month, with the release of Go1.5.1 that supports compiling Go code into shared libraries and simplified package vendoring. I don't know how viable it is to contribute RMQ (or any Go based package to CRAN). If it is not too difficult, I would be willing to try. Go1.5.1 would need to be installed on all build hosts. I would be willing to help setup an appropriate build environments if need be. In summary, my question is: is it viable to add RMQ to CRAN? Thank you for your thoughts! Jason [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
