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extendr / rextendr

An R package that helps scaffolding extendr-enabled packages or compiling Rust code dynamically
https://extendr.github.io/rextendr/
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Use case and offer of support in testing and documentation #101

Open Robinlovelace opened 3 years ago

Robinlovelace commented 3 years ago

Hi everyone in nascent extendr community, I've been following the repos for a while and wanted to let you that I'm planning on using the technology on a project, thinking it could be a useful use case. This is the project, a simple crate that generates zones and currently outputs .geojson files (later versions could output other formats/representations): https://github.com/zonebuilders/zonebuilder-rust

I am not a rust developer but am being tutored in this by Dustin Carlino who is. I am an R developer and writer so can help with docs. I'm not sure when we will try to build the 'R-bridge' to call the cargo crate from R (or even how) but can keep you posted here if that would be of use/interest.

Any comments on the project idea welcome. Here is the zonebuilder R package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=zonebuilder

Planning to eventually use the Rust crate as a 'backend' using rextendr for fun and to generalise the solution to be called from other languages/environments.

CGMossa commented 3 years ago

Sounds great.

I'd like to also suggest that you come to the discord server, and ask questions, etc. there. I'm on that server, and whenever there is something I can contribute to, I do. Here's a link for you to ExtendR's Discord.