That sounds interesting, i am open to join yet another slack team. The way I structure my time these days, I dedicate one day a week to the r arrow front end. Right now this is tuesdays.
I have other strong commitment for other open projects on mondays and fridays, and I keep the two other days for miscellaneous projects mostly around R, my aim is to community fund these two days, hence my patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/romainfrancois Even though I might do arrow things outside of tuesdays, this is a much weaker « might ». Just trying to manage expectations about my time ... Romain > Le 14 mars 2018 à 18:19, Aneesh Karve <ane...@quiltdata.io> a écrit : > > 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>
