Hi Romain, I have a list of about ten R developers and users who are interested in Arrow bindings for R, as well as a Slack channel where we can discuss things further. Feel free to email me and I'll connect you. The list arose as we were looking to bring R support to Quilt packages; and we explored the existing Feather bindings, Rcpp and other options. ᐧ
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:45 AM, Romain Francois <rom...@purrple.cat> wrote: > Hello, > > I just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m Romain François, mostly > involved in making tools for R. My track record includes being an author of > Rcpp and dplyr. > > I will be working with Wes’s guidance on making an R front end for arrow. > Initially that means going through the C++ api and perhaps see how things > have been implemented in the python front end. For the foreseeable future, > I’ll be spending Tuesdays on this. Some words from last week. > https://purrple.cat/blog/2018/03/07/arrow-rrrow-rcher-spurrrow/ < > https://purrple.cat/blog/2018/03/07/arrow-rrrow-rcher-spurrrow/> > > Are there any resources that could be relevant, e.g. some document about > how another front end was made ? > Are there other R people here ? > > Regards, > > Romain -- Aneesh Karve | 765-360-9348 | LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/in/aneeshkarve> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/akarve> quiltdata.com | Manage data like code <https://blog.quiltdata.com/its-time-to-manage-data-like-source-code-3df04cd312b8>
