Hi Jason, On 24 October 2015 at 09:31, Jason E. Aten wrote: | 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
Nice. I like go and looked at it a few times over these last few years. Did you know that Google has worked on Go/R integration? Christoph Best talked about it at useR! 2015. No code release yet, and it depends on RPC and new ProtoBuf. | 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 The existing package for msgpackR in CRAN is for the outdated msgpack | 1 standard, and can be very slow for some inputs, crashing on others.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. Let's the view of package author's of their own package an invariant :) Most are pretty impressed. | 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. You "just" make that a) a SystemRequirements: entry and possibly add a line to say which Debian/Ubuntu and/or Fedora/Yum packages need to be installed b) possibly test for it in configure | In summary, my question is: is it viable to add RMQ to CRAN? Yes. Many other packages on CRAN depend on / work with external packages, libraries or tools. We'll help. Let's work on this. Dirk | 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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
