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R-Cocoa Bridge

5 messages · Lee Falin, elijah wright, Simon Urbanek

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I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R  
bridge that was under development, but I can't find anything recent  
about it. Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not,  
does anyone have any experience/pointers calling R functions from Cocoa?

Thanks for your time,
Lee Falin
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The R builds on OSX build an R.Framework; you can probably bootstrap off 
of that without too much trouble.  [I haven't done much with it; wish I 
had time.]

--elijah
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Lee Falin wrote:

            
R/Cocoa bridge is what the R for Mac OS X GUI is built upon (just grab  
the sources and look at REngine). However, it's not perfect (its main  
purpose was to support the GUI - it may need some de-coupling - see  
also the "stand-alone-REngine" branch) and there is an ongoing project  
to get write a more general bridge as part of the Mac GUI 2.x  
initiative. There are also other alternatives, but I'm not sure how  
public or currently maintained they are these days.

Cheers,
Simon
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:30 PM, elw at stderr.org wrote:

            
Unfortunately the R/ObjC bridge is not part of the framework yet.  
We're working on it, but we need some more cleanup of the old code.  
The current plan is to have it ready for R 2.7.0 (but you never  
know ...).

Cheers,
Simon
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Good to know - looking forward to it.

Thanks, Simon!

--elijah